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Tag: National Ceasefire Agreement

Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Why Myanmar’s Wa always get what they want

by Bertil Lintner September 18, 2019February 18, 2020

Shops, hotels and restaurants in Panghsang, the unofficial capital of Myanmar’s northeastern area controlled by the United Wa State Army (UWSA), display signs in three languages: Wa, Chinese and Bamar. But while Wa, Chinese and other ethnic dialects are widely spoken in the city, very few residents can speak or read, Bamar. Other social and […]

Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Myanmar’s Wa seek peace through strength

by Bertil Lintner April 17, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Peace march kicks up more war in Myanmar

by Bertil Lintner March 19, 2019February 18, 2020
Army chief Snr General Min Aung Hlaing has told media groups they could face legal action over unverified reports about the military. Photo: AFP / Thet Aung
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Army chief threatens to sue media groups over ‘false reports’

by Bertil Lintner January 2, 2019February 18, 2020
Myanmar's then military junta leader in a 2010 file photo. Photo: AFP/Liu Jin
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Myanmar’s ex-junta chief resurfaces as conciliator

by Bertil Lintner December 1, 2018February 18, 2020
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (C), presides over a meeting in Naypyidaw with chairman of the Karen National Union General Saw Mutu Say Poe (L) and military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on the third anniversary of the signing of Myanmar's Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement on October 15, 2018. Photo: AFP via Myanmar State Counsellor's Office/handout
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar, Thailand, World

Little trust, little hope for Myanmar’s faltering peace try

by Brian McCartan November 30, 2018February 18, 2020
Karen children next to a barbed wire fence at Mae La refugee camp in Mae Sot near the Thai-Myanmar border. At least 87,000 people remain in the camps which were set up in 1984. Photo: AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar, Thailand

Forgotten refugee crisis on the Thai-Myanmar border

by Jim Pollard November 17, 2018February 18, 2020
Rebel soldiers of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) manning rifles on a supply route from Laiza, a KIA-controlled stronghold in Myanmar's northern Kachin state on the border with China. Photo: AFP/Patrick Bodenham
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Germany, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, World

A vision for war without end in Myanmar

by Anthony Davis May 30, 2018February 18, 2020
Armored vehicles are seen at a parade marking the 72nd Armed Forces Day in the Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw on March 27, 2017. Photo: AFP via Andalou Agency/Lamin Tun
Posted inAT Finance, China, Mexico, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Myanmar peace process being destroyed on multiple fronts

by Bertil Lintner May 26, 2018February 18, 2020
Students take part in a rally demanding peace in war-torn Kachin state in Yangon, Myanmar May 12, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Stringer
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, China, European Union, Myanmar, Russia, South Asia, Thailand, World

Peace is war in Myanmar

by David Scott Mathieson May 17, 2018February 18, 2020
Shan State Army - South (SSA-S) soldiers exercising with logs at their headquarters in Loi Tai Leng, in Myanmar's northeastern Shan State, Photo: AFP/KC Ortiz
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Myanmar

Myanmar’s wars are more than resource grabs

by Sai Wansai February 18, 2018February 18, 2020
Rebel soldiers of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) manning rifles on a supply route from Laiza, a KIA-controlled stronghold in Myanmar's northern Kachin state on the border with China. Photo: AFP/Patrick Bodenham
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, India, Japan, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Singapore, South Asia, Thailand

Spurned by West, Myanmar’s Kachin look to China

by Bertil Lintner January 24, 2018February 18, 2020
A Shan State Army-South soldier stands guard outside the insurgent group's headquarters ahead of the Shan National Day in Loi Tai Leng, in Myanmar's northeastern Shan State. Photo: AFP/KC Ortiz
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Myanmar, South Asia

Myanmar’s cockpit of anarchy

by Anthony Davis December 31, 2017February 18, 2020
Myanmar security officials stand guard in a pool of mud on July 13, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Simon Lewis
Posted inAT Finance, Middle East, Myanmar, Thailand

Self-defeating approach to peace in Myanmar

by David Scott Mathieson July 28, 2017February 18, 2020
Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi sits in her car after arriving at the airport in New Delhi, India, October 17, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
Posted inAT Finance, European Union, Myanmar, Thailand, World

Peace process in pieces in Myanmar

by Bertil Lintner May 22, 2017February 18, 2020
A Myanmar woman stands at the door of her bamboo shack on November 4, 2015.  Photo: Reuters/Jorge Silva
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, Middle East, Myanmar, Philippines, South Asia, Thailand, World

In pursuit of peace, a war against women

by Fiona MacGregor April 29, 2017February 18, 2020
State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma speaks during a bilateral meeting with US President Barack Obama (not seen) at the White House in Washington, September 14, 2016. Photo: AFP/Jim Watson
Posted inAT Finance, China, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia

Peace process descends into farce

by Bertil Lintner April 5, 2017February 18, 2020
In tune: United Wa State Army soldiers during a media display in Panghsang, Wa territory in northeast Myanmar October 4, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Myanmar

Wa rebel group torpedoes Suu Kyi’s peace drive

by Bertil Lintner February 28, 2017February 18, 2020

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