Commentaries on Burmese Sources
31.05.2013 | Commentaries on Burmese Sources
Listen to the speeches by Kachin politicians and military leaders, as well as by Myanmar 'peace negotiators'. The signed 7-point agreement between...
10.04.2013 | Commentaries on Burmese Sources
Who would have thought that decency would be a bad thing in a journalist, intellectually and professionally speaking? But when it comes to Burma,......
Aung San Suu Kyi could be the Burmese regime’s greatest ally. The sentence today signals a missed opportunity as well as a travesty of justice, says...
17.10.2012 | Commentaries on Burmese Sources
Aung San Suu Kyi is already presumed guilty in the eyes of her captors. Her Kafkaesque trial offers her one opportunity however: a rare media......
The last time Burma hit the headlines it was during the bloody crackdown on Buddhist monk-protesters. This time it is Cyclone Nargis. In their......
17.10.2012 | Commentaries on Burmese Sources
My mind wondered swiftly back to the childhood bedtime stories told by my great-grandmother of a bloody encounter in the 1930s in my native Mandalay...
As the events unfolded this week in Rangoon, my mind wandered back to the bedtime stories my great-grandmother told me of a bloody encounter in the...
Focusing on Aung San Suu Kyi may not be the best way to bring democracy to Burma, argues Maung Zarni Starting as one of the progressive political......
Over the past two decades, the West-led threats have hardened the regime's resistance On Monday, under house arrest and virtually alone, except for a...
