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...
BANGKOK: A chorus of international calls is on the rise to end the economic and financial sanctions Western countries led by the United States have...
I am all for forgiveness. But dictators by definition are sociopaths. Justice is only served when they and their families – don’t forget they are NOT...
16.10.2012 | Commentaries on Burmese Sources
President Thein Sein, what really is your analysis of the plight of Burma’s “Bengali Kulars” (or the Burmese equivalent of “niggers”)? Things are......
