Burmese government allows oil and gas firms to name profit sharing terms -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/44696

Will the Burma Road end in Democracy - by Walden Bello - from 2012

http://fpif.org/will_the_burma_road_end_in_democracy/

Sentinel Project says Burma at high risk for genocide -

http://thesentinelproject.org/situations-of-concern-2/burma-soc/

Renowned Burmese economist Dr Khin Maung Kyi passes away in Singapore --

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/43587

Kindle & Print editions of K.M.Kaung's novella Black Rice -

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520/ref=cm_rdp_product

What do you do if you are black skinned in Burma?

Burma - self evident to all but the self delusional -

Self evident except to self delusional fools - 

 

from Dr Maung Zarni's Facebook -

 

You think Myanmar is democratizing because the generals now hold elections and sit in the parliament like monkeys in silk skirts.

But do you know that 1 in 3 human beings on earth live under some form of authoritarian/dictatorial regime, despite that only 5 countries did NOT hold elections in the past 15-20 years?

Forms never crystalise into essence or practice.

For those who think the military junta is preferable to the messy democratic politics, they are not really looking, seeing or understanding Burma in transition.

Here is essentially the skeleton of the regime's strategy.

it is the same junta who has learned to 1) act smarter with business interests, 2) exploit the West's desperation, 3) address own fear of China, 4) coopt and/or courrpt the dissident elites by dangling the carrot of 2015 elections, 5) stoke ethno-religious prejudices of the majority against the weakest in society with no real support from any foreign power, 6) outsource Rohingya genocide and anti-Muslim mass violence, 7) tarnish any future threats from the Buddhist Sangha, seduce and use western educated Burmese technocrat elite with no strong ideological (pro-people) core, 9) facilitate the Lady's morphing into a world class hypocrite,10) offer the armed resistance elites business and 'development' prospects, throw 'donors's crumbs' at foreign consultants in development-peace-INGO industry, and 11) finally frame every problem as part and parcel of democratization.

Naypyidaw is able to do all this, apparently, while maintaining a very firm grip on most strategic domains of the State and power: the propaganda (media), the armed gangs mistakenly referred to as the Army, the business sector, the opposition politics, international relations, the finances, the resource sector, all State institutions of any importance, the Intelligence services, the religion!

The timing and the setting for Naypyidaw to pursue this multi-pronged and multi-faceted strategy is perfect. The West is too desperate, too greed-driven, and too arrogantly ignorant.

All this sounds like one big Naypyidaw conspiracy. And it is. All powers conspire.

Ask the United States Presidents and NSA.

Dr Maung Zarni - 

7th July 1962 archived photos - Massacre of Civilians, Rangoon, Burma -

http://www.mizzima.com/gallery/photo-essay/5558-historical-photographs-july-7-1962.html

Experimental art gallery in Rangoon -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/36151

Too much too soon - ILO removes restrictions on Burma -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/37901#comment-32749

Aung San Suu Kyi slams Thein Sein so-called reforms - condemns offical 2 child policy for Rohingya

Aung San Suu Kyi slams Thein Sein so called reforms -

condemns Rohingya 2 child offcl policy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/35559

Famous Kachin-Norwegian singer will launch campaign against Nobel for Presdt Th. S.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/33357

Burma - Letpadan Taung Copper Mine protestors, shot at, beaten up for ploughing their own fields

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/32995

Will hatred kill the dream of a peaceful, democratic Myanmar, by Aung Zaw, in the New York Times -

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/opinion/will-hatred-kill-the-dream-of-a-peaceful-democratic-myanmar.html?pagewanted=all

Burma - so-called reforms - update by Anonymous

I like what you wrote and I totally agree that she should remove herself from politics before tarnishing herself. At present, it seems like Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been cleverly hoodwinked by foxes wearing sheepskins.  .  .  .  It is so clear that the reforms are good for the privileged people.  I can't even think about how the poor people are going to manage.  Everyone keeps saying that the democratic reforms are still young and we ought to be patient. Strangely, the reforms are moving pretty fast for the business people .  .  .  who are the cronies of the cronies of the cronies of the cronies of the ex-Generals. In short, corruption is now legally practiced.

Anonymous is referring to the article which I wrote in International Gallerie.  This quote is published with specific permission from Anonymous.

A must read - in Burma Facebook is a hotbed of extremism - by Chan Myae Khine

http://asiancorrespondent.com/104730/in-burma-facebook-becomes-a-hotbed-of-extremism/

The Dangers of Decency - by Dr Maung Zarni - why foreign journalists get it all wrong - with ref. to Burma

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/31883#comment-29604

Burma jarred by Aung San Suu Kyi at military parade

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/world/asia/daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-appears-at-burmese-military-parade.html?_r=0

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi makes a veiled comment with ref. to anti-Muslim riots in Meikhtila, N. Burma -

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi makes a veiled comment about racial strife in Meikhtila to reporters in Naypyitaw  --
translation:  "I am telling you now, just because a lot of people do it, and the majority does it, does not make it right.

"For instance if everyone was hitting one reporter, it is still not right."

See RFA TV 3-22-2013

http://www.rfa.org/burmese/

Who or what is a political prisoner - DVB interview with Ko Bo Kyi of Association for the Assistance of Political Prisoners, Burma

http://www.dvb.no/interview/bo-kyi-this-work-is-directly-related-to-rule-of-law/26885

Generation 88 Ko Htay Gywe says - it does not become a democracy just because

there is a "parliament and an election" and the environment is also totally destroyed -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3lY67B3uRA