Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
ASEAN Needs to Work With Burma’s Democratic Resistance to End Violence and Reverse the Slow Balkanization
As leaders of ethnic armed resistance organizations, we view ourselves not only representatives of our respective communities but as national actors. We are forging ahead with an institutional platform for a federal democracy. We offer our utmost assistance to ASEAN and call on the UN and friends of ASEAN to support its efforts in implementing the Five-Point Consensus.
东盟需要与缅甸的民主抵抗结束暴力和扭转缓慢的巴尔干化
作为民族武装抵抗组织的领导人，我们不仅将自己视为各自社区的代表，而且将自己视为国家行动者。 我们正在为联邦民主建立一个体制平台。
In Brazil and in the United States, We Need to Avoid Learning the Wrong Lessons from Right-Wing Attacks
It is necessary to abandon the idea that more policing, more surveillance, and more restrictive protest laws can help us to fight right-wing extremism. It is more likely that such measures will soon be used to fight us by the very political actors whom we are fighting against.
ချုပ်နှောင်မှုများကို ဆန့်ကျင့်၍ စနစ်များကို ဖြိုချဖျက်ဆီးသော ကွန်မြူနစ်ဝါဒီဆီသို့!
Simoun Magsalin (စီမုန်း မာဂ်စာလင်း) မူရင်းရေးသားပြီး မခြင်္သေ့ ဘာသာပြန်သည်။ မူရင်းဆောင်းပါးကို “လူမုန်းများ” မဂ္ဂဇင်းတွင် ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် မတ်လ ၂၈ ရက်တွင် ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့ပြီး မကြာမီတွင် ဇိုင်းအသွင်ကို zines and agitprop section တွင် ဖတ်ရှုနိူင်ပါလိမ့်မည်။
The Right’s Worrying Trajectories in India and the United States
Political observers and activists need to keep a close eye on the Right’s agenda in the two countries. The world’s largest democracy and the world’s oldest democracy are both in trouble.
In Bed with Two Genocidal Regimes in the ASEAN Region: The Case of Singapore, the “Switzerland of Southeast Asia”
Running a government is not like running a church, as the 6th President, the late S. R. Nathan, angrily shouted at me some 30 years ago. But running a state should not mean collaborating and profiting from the genocidal regimes in the backyard.
လေ့လာမိသမျှ ချင်းမျိုးနွယ်စုကြားက ပဋိပက္ခ နှင့် အကျိုးဆက်များ
ဘယ်ကရောက်လာမှန်းမသိတဲ့ "ချင်း" ဆိုတဲ့နာမည်က အင်္ဂလိပ်ကိုလိုနီခတ်ကာလမှာ စပေါ်လာတော့ ကိုယ့်မျိုးနွယ်စုနာမည်နဲ့ ဒေသနာမည်တွေ ဘေးချိတ်ကာ ချင်း အဖြစ်ခံယူဖို့ တွန့်တွန့်ဆုတ်ဆုတ် ဖြစ်ခဲ့ကြတယ်။ ယနေ့ ချင်းအများစု "ချင်း"အဖြစ်ခံယူကြတယ်ဆိုတာ လွယ်လွယ်နဲ့ နေ့ချင်းညချင်း ဖြစ်လာတာ မဟုတ်ဘူး။
Western Myanmar as a Genocide Triangle: Myanmar’s Military-State, Separatist Rakhine Nationalists and Rohingya Genocide Victims
The increasingly vocal demand by the separatist Arakan Army (AA) for international recognition of it as a (quasi)-state actor with which the United Nations and foreign governments should do business with, needs to be checked against the dark record of the anti-Rohingya racism and criminal responsibility of its popular base, namely Rakhine nationalists, in the slow-burning genocide of Rohingyas since the late 1970's.
The Exceptionality of the Powerless and the Banality of Power: Japan’s Rohingya Community and the Japanese State
By imposing sanctions on Japanese businesses that associate with the criminal state of Myanmar, the U.S. and Europe can make Japan and its industries pay the price for the desires hidden behind their pretensions of peace and prosperity.
ASEAN under Cambodia’s Chair-ship Needs a New Muscular Strategy To Deal with Myanmar Dictator Min Aung Hlaing
ASEAN Defence Ministries could work out a Humanitarian Task Force, with Cambodia as a natural leader. The post-civil war Cambodian leadership of Prime Minister Hun Sen has decades of experience working with external actors, from UN to China. This proposal could be attractive to both China and other immediate neighbours.