by MRN | Oct 25, 2013 | World
I never thought I would write this, but Aung San Suu Kyi sent a shiver down my spine when she appeared on the Today programme this morning. Her equivocal attitude towards the violence suffered by Burma’s Muslim minority was deeply disturbing. I’m sorry to say that she...
by MRN | Oct 11, 2013 | World
Religious leaders in a western Myanmar town reeling from deadly anti-Muslim clashes urged calm on Monday after fresh violence broke out in the country’s central Irrawaddy Delta region. On Sunday night a mob of Buddhist residents destroyed five Muslim houses in the...
by MRN | Sep 10, 2013 | World
NOT too long ago in the office of Myanmar’s media censor, a young military officer crumpled up a newspaper article by a noted Myanmar writer and, dropping it on to the floor, used a golf putter to send it across the room. The putter is now in the closet and the...
by MRN | Sep 4, 2013 | World
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. Issue 14 (September 2013). Myanmar Changes in Myanmar over the past three years have indeed been dizzying. A cursory look at the turn of events since 201 in will persuade any doubters of the genuineness of the country’s transition. The...
by MRN | Aug 5, 2013 | World
Fears of a new religious strife Fuelled by a dangerous brew of faith, ethnicity and politics, a tit-for-tat conflict is escalating between two of Asia’s biggest religions THE total segregation of Buddhist Arakanese from Muslim Rohingyas is now a fact of life in the...
