Bertil Lintner's latest piece is comprehensive, hard-hitting and short to the point.

The trouble with the powers that be, including the Burmese military class, is that they never have the intention to climb down from their ethnocentric high horse and sit at the round table with the non-Bamar ethnic groups on equal basis, to sort out the power and resources sharing problems, based on a genuine federalism.

Like Bertil Lintner has correctly said, a new approach to break the vicious circle of talking and fighting has to stop, if durable and lasting solution is to be found.

But by the indications unfolding now are the continuation of the old policies of successive military regimes will be implemented, where the ethnic resistance forces are concerned. They are "surrender, get absorbed into the Bamar controlled army and be happy with some economic dole out."

And until the Bamar political and military class are committed to the real power and resources sharing, anchored in a genuine federal union, could be earnestly worked out, the ethnic conflict would go on unabated.

 By Khurtaikornkhaw

Link to the article: http://www.irrawaddy.com/burma/burmas-misguided-peace-process-needs-a-fresh-start.htmlAC