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Published in: Home“Genocide cards”: Rohingya refugees on why they risked their lives to refuse ID cardsWary 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 ideaAn 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’ revivalIt is delusional to expect that this unfettered racism will stop there. It must be confronted. Shockingly, though,...
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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 crisisThe 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 desireWe 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 silenceFor 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 challengesOne 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 MyanmarBasically 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 MyanmarGlobal 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 citiesCan 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 rightsContention 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 transition96 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB JA X-NONE Students in Myanmar have achieved what few other citizens have since...
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Published in: HomeAsia at the crossroadsAside from China, nearly all the states in Asia make use of the trappings of democracy, such as elections,...
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Published in: openSecurityCivilian justice trumps military impunity in MyanmarThe rare conviction of a soldier in civilian court shows how, case by case, the criminal justice system is slowly...
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Published in: openSecurityMyanmar: the human-rights story behind the spinThe authorities in Nay Pyi Taw are steering the former authoritarian pariah state to open engagement with the world....
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Published in: HomeBurma: the clash of church, state and society
Burma's government and political leaders are now paying a bitter price for allowing the reform process to be...
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