MYANMAR: UNKNOWN PARADISE, TIMELESS TREASURE OR FORGOTTEN LAND?
Three years into its latest crisis Myanmar risks falling back into isolation and neglect unless there is greater international urgency.
Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute – Griffith University
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Three years into its latest crisis Myanmar risks falling back into isolation and neglect unless there is greater international urgency.
Victories by Myanmar’s ethnic insurgents over the past three months have resulted in a strategic shift in the civil war, and in the balance of power in Myanmar. Manpower is a key factor in an existential conflict.
Claims that Myanmar’s military junta is interested in acquiring nuclear weapons should be treated warily given the history of poor punditry on the issue, writes Andrew Selth.
As the civil war in Myanmar drags on, most foreign governments appear to have concluded that the military regime will survive and that their own national interests dictate they should recognise it as the country’s government, writes Andrew Selth. Sham elections scheduled for later this year are likely to only highlight this attitude.
Andrew Selth analyses the grim logic that led Myanmar’s military junta to embark on a charade of legal process and then execute four pro-democracy activists last week.