Myanmar Religious Leaders Urge Harmony After Anti-Muslim Clashes

Myanmar Religious Leaders Urge Harmony After Anti-Muslim Clashes

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...
Myanmar seeking to manage media

Myanmar seeking to manage media

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...
A “Three Insecurities Perspective” for the Changing Myanmar

A “Three Insecurities Perspective” for the Changing Myanmar

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...
Buddhism v Islam in Asia

Buddhism v Islam in Asia

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...