Oct 7, 2013 | News / Article
By: Claire Salisbury For decades, one of Southeast Asia’s largest countries has also been its most mysterious. Now, emerging from years of political and economic isolation, its shift towards democracy means that Myanmar is opening up to the rest of the world....
Oct 7, 2013 | News / Article
By ROBIN McDOWELL THANDWE, Myanmar (AP) — Even as the president came to western Myanmar to urge an end to sectarian violence last week, security forces could not prevent Buddhist mobs from torching the homes of minority Muslims or hacking them to death, at times,...
Oct 5, 2013 | News / Article
By MARK INKEY/ THE IRRAWADDY Britain is finalizing the details of military assistance that will see 30 high-ranking officers in the Burma Army receive specially tailored training, including instruction on how to operate within the rule of law, the head of a UK...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
By AP / Robin McDowell (THABYUCHAING, Myanmar) — Buddhist mobs carrying swords and knives swarmed Zaw Lay Khar’s village again and again, clashing with Muslims and burning their homes. When she saw about 40 attackers approaching her home, she fled with her daughter...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
Reuters By Jared Ferrie THANDWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – The Buddhist mob mutilated and burned Khin Naing so severely his son couldn’t recognise the body, one of series of attacks that suggest a resurgence of a monk-led movement in Myanmar accused of stoking...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
Prague Daily Monitor Prague, Oct 3 (CTK) – Burmese dissident Min Ko Nain, who spent 16 years in solitary confinement under the rule of the military junta in the country, Thursday arrived in Prague where he will receive the human rights prize Homo Homini from the...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
By KYAW PHYO THA / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON— It happened one night in the summer of 1989. Mutineers invaded their party headquarters at a border town near the Burmese-Chinese frontier in northeastern Shan State. In an outburst of anti-party feeling, they took full...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
By SAMANTHA MICHAELS / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — Following pledges to enhance military ties with Burma, the United States has maintained a block on military assistance to President Thein Sein’s quasi-civilian government for its use of child soldiers in armed conflict,...
Oct 4, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
RFA Myanmar President Thein Sein lamented Wednesday that unending deadly riots in troubled Rakhine state are hindering its recovery from a spate of communal violence that began last year, calling on Buddhists and Muslims to sink their differences and prevent further...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
By Kim N. B. Ninh and Matthew Arnold With a much-heralded democratic transition underway in Myanmar, the future holds the potential for impressive gains but also significant challenges. Among the latter, decentralization and state-local relations as mandated by the...
