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This paper will examine political culture and mindset that shape and break the federal dream and discuss the best possible model for federalization in Myanmar.
This publication was part of a-four-year research project “Drugs & (Dis)order: Building sustainable peacetime economies in the aftermath of war”, funded by the UK government’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).
Since 14-18 May, when the NCAS-EAO Summit 4/1 was held in Chiangmai, a number of comments have come out on the decision of the Karen National Union (KNU) to quit the Peace Process Steering Team (PPST) and form, what it calls, the Peace Process Consultative Meeting (PPCM). Without sufficient data and...
When the British arrived in Rangoon after World II, the Burmans in the Ministerial Burma or Burma Proper were gripped by political tensions causing unrest. The Burmese political organisations were fighting for supremacy. The AFPFL under the Japanese occupation had many branches all over the country ...
After I had read it the first time, I said to myself: Now you’re a toothless tiger and over the hill. Time to make way for the young ones.
There are at least 3 reasons to read this book, written by a scion of the one of the 34 noble houses of the former Federated Shan States, Lawksawk.
This was my second visit to the United Kingdom, that Vladimir Peniakoff aka Popski (1897-1951) of Popski’s Private Army (PPA), a famous fighting unit during the Second World War had affectionately called the Land of the Enchanted Mistress (“as a boy, having loved (her) and broken away, will go on lo...
An emergency meeting of the Peace Process Steering Team (PPST), the leading organ of the 8 signatory EAOs, was therefore held to assess and decide how to handle the situation.
Since the last Shan Drug Watch annual report was published in June 2012, I have written only a few articles on the drug situation in Shan State. One obvious reason was the reconciliatory climate required by the peace process didn’t go well with the hostile nature of the drug issue. Another reason, e...
On the surface, it was going to be just another birthday party. What drew (and did not draw) people to attend the event was HarnYawnghwe, the EBO’s executive director, who early this year had been, in effect, served with a persona non grata status by the Aung San Suu Kyi government.
The NCA signatories’ meeting to prepare for the upcoming Union Peace Conference (UPC#4), according to the NCA, or the Union Peace Conference 21st Century Panglong (UPC21CP) #3, according to the government, was held in Chiangmai, 14-18 December.
This time, my main purpose was to take part in the Sino-Myanmar Scholars Informal Meeting, which was on 27 November.
This is the second such meeting that I have the honor to attend. The first was on 6 April 2017, that I have already reported in To Hopeland and Back: The 29thtrip
The meeting is the first since 9-10 October 2017 which was held in preparation for the ceremony to be held in Naypyitaw on 15 October 2017 in commemoration of the NCA signing two years earlier.
I have already reported on the first part: Historical background. Part Two: Guardians of the Shan Plateau talks about the Saohpas (“Lords of the Sky), the rulers of the Shan State’s former princedoms.
However, this time, I had gone there while I was still under the influence of fever accompanied by persistent coughs. Which prevented me from seeking as much knowledge and as many people as I wanted to.
This is the second book written by Sao Sanda (a scion of the Yawnghwe Princely House) in 9 years. The first one is The Moon Princess: Memories of the Shan States (2008).
My trip this time had two purposes:
I haven’t been there for over 3 months now and I need to update myself with what’s happening there
On 25 August, a terrible—some will say brilliant—coordinated multiple attack took place in Rakhine. Knowing how the Tatmadaw tends to react to this kind of onsla...
On 4-7 September, Col Htoo Htoo Lay, Advisor to the Peace Process Steering Team (PPST), the 8 person leading body of the 8 EAOs that signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) in 2015, met to finalize its peace strategy before meeting the government’s National Reconciliation and Peace Center/Pe...
Last week, there was a discussion on whether the Union constitution adopted in 2008—by questionable means―should be amended or rewritten.
The following is a brief recap of what I have learned from different sources at different occasions during the period.
I have learned from them. And I hope you are going to, too, if you haven’t already have.
This time, as readers who keep track of the country will know, I was there for the Union Peace Conference #3, according to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, or the Union Peace Conference 21st Century Panglong (UPC 21CP) #2, according to the government in office.
The trip came about due to the Pyidaungsu Institute (PI) Yangon Office’s plan to launch its latest work,” English-Myanmar Glossary of Federalism Terms,” on 16 May.
The morning session begins with evaluation of the overall situation. Extracts:
Most of our people are uninformed of what’s really happening around them. Many of them therefore are easily won over by the other side.
According to the UNICEF report, Shan State is the lowest in literacy
It was an honor to attend, observe and advise the Annual meeting of the almost 4 year old Committee for Shan State Unity (CSSU), the association of 3 political parties, 2 armed resistance armies, and 6 CSOs, in Chiangmai.
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