Dear State Counsellor and sister Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, In the years leading to your final release in 2010, your struggle for democracy was ours. Your defiant activism and unimaginable sacrifices profoundly inspired us, and like the rest of the world, we held you as a beacon of hope for Burma and for our human family. Along with other fellow laureates, we worked tirelessly and diligently for your personal freedom. It...

The heart of the problem is to find a reasonable policy balance between the phobia, either it is actually believed or indoctrinated to believe, that the Rohingya or to use the government-military accepted label Bangali would overwhelm the rest of the 50 million population with Islamization, and logical, pragmatic undertaking. This phobia...

The book would also be in tune with the recent open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi from the concerned exiled group of individuals, who coined the phrase that Burma might be “sleep-walking into the abyss of racial hatred and religious bigotry”. If this description of the present situation is real the more it will be impossible to build a bridge...

(4-7 September 2017) Everyman is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) I’m sure I’m not the first one to say there is no school higher than life and we all are its students. Be humble and be diligent, and you’ll never be disappointed. On 4-7 September, Col Htoo Htoo Lay, Advisor to the Peace Process Steering Team (PPST), the 8 person leading body of the 8 EAOs that signed...

Whether the UWSA-led Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee (FPNCC) would also be a military alliance, beyond its political bargaining bloc position, is an open question everyone is most interested. For now, the UWSA might try to avoid direct involvement with the Tatmadaw and the latter is also, more or less, might be...