The junta boasted it would crush popular revolt in six months; two and a half years later the Spring Revolution is making rapid advances across the country.
Bangkok is bracing for a possible influx of Myanmar asylum seekers as the junta begins enforcing its compulsory military conscription.
Ellen Goldstein’s Damned If You Do pulls no punches in its excoriating account of World Bank incompetence amid crisis.
After six decades of political wrangling, assassinations and opium trading, Shan forces remain bitterly divided, lacking a common vision for their people.
Thailand should adopt a practical approach to identify non-junta partners on transboundary issues, including haze management.
Beijing is ramping up pressure after brokering a Shan State truce, convinced that neither side can win a civil war that is threatening billions of dollars in Chinese investment.
The multiple crises on Thailand’s border sparked by the Myanmar junta’s failed coup could present opportunities for Bangkok, but so far its approach has been flawed.
As civil war grips western Myanmar, the prospect of repatriation for 1 million refugees is dimming – yet a viable mid-term solution lies near at hand.
With power devolving to ethnic armed groups and revolutionary bodies, the international community must find a new way to deal with the country.
Neighboring countries are supporting the junta’s brutal war on its own people, fearing a human exodus across their borders if it falls.
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