September 2016
Mae La Oon Refugee Camp: Living in Limbo
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | September 5, 2016 When Saw Eh Doh Moo fled to Thailand during an outbreak of fighting in his village, he wasn’t scared — but he was exhausted and hungry. “I [...]
July 2016
How to Build a Bottom-up Federal Union
By Moe Gyo / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | July 29, 2016 Federalism has been posited as one of the solutions toward resolving the ethnic conflict in Burma and achieving long sought sustainable peace. [...]
June 2016
Karen Women’s Group Claim Ration Cuts, Burma Army, Landmines and Poor Planning by INGOs and UN Agencies Places Refugees in a Hard Place…
Karen News | June 20, 2016 Despite the on-going peace process in Burma today, thousands of ethnic people are fleeing fighting, and many of them are not able to cross international borders to safety.” The [...]
Linking Panglong Agreement Review and the 5th Anniversary Re-eruption of Kachin Conflict
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | June 13, 2016 As the Kachin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and over a hundred Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), local and international, called for peace and an end [...]
Part Two: The Ethnic Alliances; It’s Rhetoric and Substance in Myanmar’s Modern Political Transition
By Banya Hongsar for Mon News Agency (MNA) | June 06, 2016 Historical ethnic political alliance: The leaders of ethnic armed insurgencies expressed in a formal statement that ‘in the deliberation, we determined that since [...]
Part One: The Ethnic Alliances; It’s Rhetoric and Substance in Burma’s Modern Political Transition
By Banya Hongsar for Mon News Agency (MNA) | June 01, 2016 The politics of alliance has never been defined in its own narrative within the ethnic writer and scholar in modern political literature in [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi Refuses to Publish Ethnic Census Results
By Roland Watson, Dictator Watch | June 1, 2016 The Myanmar Times has a report today on the long-delayed religion and ethnic population breakdowns from the 2014 Burma national census. According to U Myint Kyaing, [...]
Tripartite Dialogue Revisited or Shifting Alliance?
Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | May 31, 2016 The Aung San Suu Kyi-headed Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC), which is made up of Union Government, Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) [...]
May 2016
The Prospects for Peace
By Roland Watson, Dictator Watch | May 24, 2016 There have been a number of significant events in Burma in the last two weeks. However, it is difficult to discern how they might come together [...]
Only De-Escalation of the War Could Pave Way for Reconciliation
Opinon article by Sai Wansai, Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | May 19, 2016 Burma Army is sending a clear message of “ethnic resistance forces annihilation stance aimed at derailing the Daw Aung San Suu [...]