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Published in: Home: OpinionMyanmar, genocide and human rights: the atrocities our world allows
Today, the world is supposed to remember the victims of genocide. Tomorrow, Aung San Suu Kyi will confront the...
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Published in: TransformationAung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice: when the personal is political
Myanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory.
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Published in: Home: OpinionMyanmar faces three international courts for Rohingya genocide –what good will they do?
The world failed the Rohingyas when they needed protection. But now it can ensure that the truth is told.
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Published in: Home“Genocide cards”: Rohingya refugees on why they risked their lives to refuse ID cards
Wary of the past, Rohingya have frustrated the UN’s attempts to provide them with documentation.
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Published in: openIndiaWhy the ‘good’ refugee is a bad idea
An opaque process of separating the ‘good’ Rohingya refugees from the ‘bad’ ones has begun under conditions where...
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Published in: HomeHow populism directed against minorities is used to prop up Myanmar’s ‘Democratic’ revival
It is delusional to expect that this unfettered racism will stop there. It must be confronted. Shockingly, though,...
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Published in: HomeIs Oxford University complicit in Aung San Suu Kyi's genocide denial?
Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of Myanmar’s international human rights crimes as designed to tarnish the...
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Published in: 50.50What’s attracting women to Myanmar’s Buddhist nationalist movement?
Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are...
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Published in: HomeTen reflections inspired by the Rohingya crisis
The educated, middleclass layman, who is interested in the world and has a sense of social justice, but doesn’t...
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Published in: TransformationSaints in politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the dilemmas of political desire
We delude ourselves by projecting qualities onto politicians who have no intention of embodying them.
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Published in: HomeEthnic cleansing and the price of silence
For years Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar by any means possible. It is time to re-examine theses advanced by...
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Published in: HomeWhen is a genocide a genocide?
(Or, why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered?) There is a genocide happening before our eyes. If...
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Published in: HomeMyanmar’s unique challenges
One year after Aung San Suu Kyi took office, Myanmar’s transition to democracy remains incomplete, and the country...
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Published in: HomeTrade union building in Myanmar
Basically all unions demand a stronger sanctioning capacity for the Arbitration Council.
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Published in: HomeThe Lady in the broken mirror: the politics of identity in Myanmar
Global icon Aung San Suu Kyi faces the everyday challenges of governing a nation whose ethnic tensions threaten to...
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Published in: HomeSoutheast Asia: a new refugee crisis looming?
Southeast Asia is seeing persecuted minorities fleeing their homeland. As in Europe, lack of political consensus has...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan democracy and genocide co-exist in Burma?
The treatment of Rohingya may be a detail in the general opening up and wooing of a state known for its unspoilt and...
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Published in: HomeIn Myanmar, outside the cities
Can the politicization of Myanmar's rural communities topple the self-serving military elite?
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Published in: civilResistanceAgainst Letpadaung: copper mining in Myanmar and the struggle for human rights
Contention around a mine in Myanmar – especially police treatment of activists campaigning to close it – has grown...
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Published in: civilResistanceIn Myanmar, students test the sincerity of democratic transition
Students in Myanmar have achieved what few other citizens have since independence: the creation of a lasting...