Myanmar: What Aung San Suu Kyi’s electoral success means
The results of Myanmar’s recent election (above) underscore the gulf between the West, which has fallen out of love with the former democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi over her… Read more »
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Suu Kyi, army, insurgency – Myanmar’s 2020 election explained
What does the weekend’s election mean for Myanmar’s complex political landscape? Reuters explains. Explainer: Suu Kyi, the army, insurgency – Myanmar’s 2020 election explained https://t.co/BgFcJ9ES7N — Democracy Digest (@demdigest)… Read more »
Myanmar: ‘Discipline-flourishing democracy the only game in town’
Myanmar’s citizens go to the polls Sunday in an effort to sustain the fledgling but backsliding democracy they helped install just five years ago. There are about 37 million registered… Read more »
China’s Belt-and-Road push for global sway – renewed or ‘overhyped’?
As Chinese leader Xi Jinping landed in Myanmar on Friday he hoped to send a clear signal that his country is back in the driver’s seat. Having backed Myanmar, also… Read more »
Burma’s civil society challenged by ‘misleading top-down transition’
How did Burma’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi go from Nobel Peace Prize laureate to figurehead for a regime accused of genocide? After Myanmar’s political reforms in 2011, Western… Read more »
Japan & South Korea should ‘lead the charge’ for democracy in Asia, but….
Japan and South Korea should lead the charge for democracy in Asia, argues Hudson Institute analyst John Lee. But recent developments cast doubt on that prospect. In a rational world,… Read more »
UN seeks boycott of firms linked to Myanmar’s military
A UN fact-finding team has exposed a far-reaching web of businesses controlled by Myanmar’s military, and warned foreign companies to sever ties with them, in findings that will underscore the… Read more »
What next for the Rohingya? Fresh thinking needed to resolve crisis
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee called for the Myanmar army chief to be prosecuted for “genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes”, CIVICUS… Read more »
Internet’s broken democratic promise: from liberation technology to digital unfreedom?
In the span of just two years, the widely shared utopian vision of the internet’s impact on governance has turned decidedly pessimistic, notes Stanford Law School analyst Nate Persily…. Read more »
Myanmar prosecutes peaceful critics
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds. Myanmar’s first democratically elected civilian government in decades has prosecuted large numbers of peaceful… Read more »