Rakhine State, historically known as Arakan, represents the post-colonial failures of Myanmar in microcosm: ethnic conflict, political impasse, militarisation, economic neglect and the marginalisation of local peoples. During the past decade, many of these challenges have gathered a new (...)
As the government meets to design a “roadmap” for developing the new national land law, TNI looks at how the situation has changed since the development of the National Land Use policy a few years ago and reflects on the issues at stake for millions of people across the country with rights to (...)
In the early 21st century, we see that a good part of the world is turning its back on diversity – and this goes beyond Southeast Asia. We see this in Europe, in India, and in the Americas. This trend manifests as a poisonous concoction of intolerance, ethno-nationalism, anti-immigrant (...)
The Second World War and wartime policies adopted by the British administration ruptured the Arakan region’s social fabric.
On March 18, 1944, with ‘Delhi Chalo!’ as their battle cry, the Azad Hind Fauj along their Japanese allies crossed the Indo-Burma border and advanced towards Kohima and (...)
The moment Kay Khine Tun, 22, was arrested at her nursing job in Yangon Children’s Hospital, her father readied for an exhausting battle with his former employer, the Myanmar Army.
“The military has no shame at all,” said Sein Mya, a 53-year-old taxi driver, as he spooned half a dozen sugars into (...)
A Memorandum of Understanding to establish the China Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) was signed by the governments of Myanmar and China in September 2018. The CMEC forms part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a 21st century reimagining of the ancient Silk Road, the network of land and (...)
The right to land for all peoples is essential for peace, democracy and development.
Farmers working on land in Pinlaung township in Shan State / Photo credit Tom Kramer
The recently adopted amendment by parliament to the 2012 Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law (VFV Law) has (...)
Land rights of peoples must be protected to improve prospects for peace.
Farmers working in the northern Shan State / Photo credit Jason Gelbort
The Government of Myanmar’s approach to land policy risks increasing land conflicts and exacerbating current challenges in formal peace negotiations. (...)
The necessity of peace by political means, inclusive of all nationalities and faiths within the Union.
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Anti-war protest for peace by residents, Myitkyina. / Photo credit Kachinland News
A church that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God (...)
Karen people in Tanintharyi region fear project to protect 800,000-acre area will cut them off from ancestral lands
A British conservation charity has become embroiled in a row with villagers displaced by civil war in Myanmar over plans to protect pristine forests housing wild Asian elephants, (...)
Violation of the press freedom in Myanmar: ARTICLE 19’s statement regarding the decision by a Yangon court to charge Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo who helped expose a massacre of Rohingya civilians.
The decision by a Yangon court to formally charge Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Reuters (...)
A Land at the Crossroads in Myanmar
Kayah State, historically known as “Karenni State”, is an example of the reform dilemmas that the ethnic nationality peoples in Myanmar face today. Although the country’s smallest state, it reflects many of the challenges in peace-building and socio-political (...)
Can Myanmar take a path to sustainable development that avoids the pitfalls of the orthodox development paradigm? This report argues that this is not only necessary but possible.
Before elucidating this alternative paradigm, the report discusses Myanmar’s economic past and where it’s headed (...)
When Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar 10 years ago, 140,000 lives were lost and 800,000 were displaced. The category 4 storm slammed into Myanmar’s low-lying Irrawaddy Delta, an area that usually escapes major typhoons. High winds and a 12-foot storm surge devastated the area, affecting millions. (...)
Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are playing a key role.
In the hastily-built displacement camps of Rakhine state, in the western part of Myanmar, where some 129,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya people have been interned (...)
After almost seventy years of civil war and armed con ict the peace process is considered to be the centerpiece of a future peaceful coexistence of the various ethnic groups in Myanmar. Peace negotiations under the former Thein Sein government led to the so called Nationwide Cease re Agreement (...)
Her failure to condemn the persecution of Rohingya Muslims has led to the Burmese politician’s dramatic fall from grace
Perhaps no one in the modern world has been so admired as a moral icon, then fallen so far in global estimation, as Aung San Suu Kyi. The Burmese democracy champion turned (...)
Critics of Ashin Wirathu and his denim-clad disciples say the monk incites racial violence against Rohingya refugees. He claims he is merely protecting his people. Myanmar army allegedly left Rohingya refugees with bullet wounds and burns.
“Aung San Suu Kyii would like to help the Bengali, but (...)
Ultra-nationalist Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha has been spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric across Myanmar for years. Cosmopolitan Mandalay is at the heart of this hostility – which many fear is here to stay.
In a cluttered room in a monastery in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second city, a group of crimson-robed (...)
Despite its natural resources, Rakhine is one of Myanmar’s poorest states – some 78 per cent of the population live below the poverty line, nearly double the national average.
Battered by global outrage over an army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, Myanmar has found comfort in an old friend – (...)
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