Prisons as Sites of National Reconciliation or Continuing Hells
In Vietnam, prison, a colonial and wartime instrument of brutality, has been turned into a memorial museum contributing to national identity-building and reconciliation. Meanwhile, Myanmar’s prisons continue to operate as spaces of systematic violence under successive authoritarian regimes.
Is China Mediating Conflicts in Myanmar?
China’s approach towards peace and stability lacks any real prospects for peace. For the Chinese are pursuing stability in Myanmar only to the extent it serves to protect their economic, security, and energy interests, not peace for Myanmar as a whole.