Death came from the sky: One massacre, too many
Pablo Picasso’s ‘Guernica’. War, its infinite brutality and bestiality! It’s eternal, tragic, deathly realism. It’s private and public sorrow. A war within. A dictatorial State in a bloody and damned…
Myanmar
Urgent Steps Needed for Peace and Relief to People in Myanmar
The tragic and painful death of nearly 100 persons in air attacks carried out by the military junta in Sagaing region of Myanmar on April 10 is another grim and…
Junta Continues to Commit Atrocity Crimes Two Years After the Attempted Military Coup
Today marks two years since the attempted military coup in Burma. Over the last two years, the people of Burma have bravely resisted the junta’s violent attempt to take total control…
A Picture of Global Complicity: Aiding Myanmar’s Military Regime
International relations remains the sum game of vast hypocrisies, a patchwork of compromises and the compromised. Every moral condemnation of a regime’s conduct is bound to be shown up as…
Myanmar: Executing Dissent
The execution of four well-known democracy activists by the military junta in Myanmar in June 2022 has angered and incensed those who cherish freedom and justice all over the world. …
International Accountability: Myanmar, the ICJ and the Genocide Question
The indomitable spirit of Raphael Lemkin, bibliophile, assiduous documenter of humanity’s dark deeds and inexecrable conduct, is bound to be an unsettled one. This brilliant, committed and peculiarly dedicated creature…
Japan Business Lobbyist Backs Coup, Urges Investment In Myanmar
A Japanese former politician who campaigned to bring billions of dollars of investment from some of Japan’s top companies to Myanmar has urged Japan to endorse its military regime, saying…
Humanitarian Crisis Looms Large in Afghanistan and Myanmar
While political changes have been in the forefront of most recent discussion on Afghanistan and Myanmar, a serious humanitarian crisis looms large for several million people. Over 50% of the…
Are We Out of Options on Myanmar?
In late August of 2017, Rohima Kadu's idyllic village of Chin Khali, Rakhine was visited by Myanmar's much dreaded military, the Tatmadaw and its local Buddhist militia associates. A helpless…
A broad, historic revolt in Myanmar against a ruthless military
For the first time in its history, legions of civilians in Myanmar, also known as Burma, are forging courageous resistance against a bloody military dictatorship — together. This in a…
India will be front-line state in Myanmar civil war
The turmoil in Myanmar had all the hallmarks of a “colour revolution”… The chorus - BBC, Radio Free Asia, western NGOs promoting democracy and human rights… But the operative part…
Myanmar’s Citizens Fleeing Persecutions and Violence must be allowed refuge into India
It’s more than two months since the Burmese military in a coup on 1 February refused to hand over the power to the National League for Democracy (NLD) after their…
Are RSS Fraternal Ties With Military Junta Behind India’s Soft Stand On Slaughter Of People In Myanmar?
If a shameful act means an action which is criminal and nauseating; it would be an understatement to describe the attitude of the present RSS-BJP rulers of India towards the…
How To Prevent the Drift Towards Humanitarian Crisis in Myanmar
The deeply worrying crackdown in Myanmar is seen at present more commonly as an attack on basic democratic processes as the military junta seems intent on denying legitimate governance to…
This is how shingles of Indian interests in Myanmar overlap Russia and China’s
This is third in the series on the flux in the global scene by the seasoned diplomat, an expert on Middle East, Eurasia, Central Asia, South Asia and the Asia-Pacific…Fourth…
The Adani Business Formula: Dealing with Myanmar’s Military
Corporate morality can be a flexible thing. Some companies see tantalising dollar signs afloat in the spilt blood of civilians and dissidents. Military governments, however trigger crazed, offer ideal opportunities;…
Myanmar’s Continuing Horrible Crackdown Also Reflects The Wider Decline of Democracy
The on-going crackdown in Myanmar is just now the biggest concern of those devoted to protection of democratic and human rights. The brutal crackdown by the junta unwilling to accept…
Recent Charges Against Suu Kyi Are Grim Reminder of Misuse of Anti Corruption Campaigns
Recently several charges of corruption have been leveled by the repressive junta against Suu Kyi, the popular leader of Myanmar who recently led her party to a big electoral victory…
Junta Kills Over 100 in Myanmar
While Myanmar's military celebrated Armed Forces Day on Saturday with a parade through the capital, the ruling junta's security forces killed more than 100 people elsewhere throughout the country in…
Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma
What is taking place in Burma right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as the dismissal of the government by…
Myanmar: Exploiting lessons learnt in the Middle East
Demonstrating for the third week their determination to force the country’s military to return to its barracks, protesters in Myanmar appear to be learning lessons from a decade of protest…
The Coup in Myanmar and the Transformation of Rohingya Politics
The future of the Rohingya people seems uncertain. A predominantly Muslim minority group indigenous to a region on the western coast of Myanmar – historically referred to as Arakan and…
Military Coup: The Myanmar – China Nexus
Myanmar has reverted to military rule. Claiming allegations of election fraud as basis for a coup the military has detained top civilian leaders of the former government, including the…
Growing call for federal democracy in Myanmar
Written by Constanze Ruprecht and Bobby Ramakant Growing number of civil society networks for peace, health and human rights from around the world are unifying their call for federal democracy…
Military coup in Myanmar: ‘Garrison State’ back to dismantle democracy?
Fears of a military takeover in Myanmar came true in the early hours of 1 February when the powerful army resorted to a series of measures which included detention of…
On Refugees….And Myanmar-It’s Not Just The Rohingya
... And my life's cold winter that knew no spring; Of my mind so weary and sick and wild, Of my heart too sad to sing. …
Rohingya Tragedy And Aung San Suu Kyi’s ‘Buddy’ Solution
Persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar is continuing with impunityand without a break. Dieng and Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, have confirmed these atrocities and “requested…
Myanmar Police To Arm, Train Non-Muslims In Conflict Area Of Rakhine State
In Myanmar government has decided to arm and train the non Muslim local people in order to enhance the security in the Rakhine State where the ethnic problems between the…
No Action On Ongoing Repression Of Myanmar’s Muslims
In one of its recent reporting the Guardian reports that at the entrance to Thaungtan village in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta a brand-new signasserts, “No Muslims allowed to stay overnight. No…
Myanmar In Transition And India
It is two months since the government controlled by Aung San Suu Kyi took charge in Myanmar. The elections that brought her to power were free despite western fears that…
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