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On May 16, the Tatmadaw, the official name of the armed forces of Myanmar, entered the town of Mindat, in the rebellious Chin state, as a triumphant occupying army. After weeks of violence, the fall of the town led to the dispersal of many of the locals, fighters, and civilians to the nearby forests. In most places on Earth, this would be a pretty remarkable happenstance. In
One of the most promising developments following the military coup in Myanmar was the formation of a pro-democracy front to resist the coup from among the ousted democratic parties, along with representatives of civil society groups and of previously marginalized ethnic groups. It therefore came as a tragic shock that the Rohingya, the ethnic group most oppressed in Myanmar in
Myanmar military outmaneuvers ASEAN neighbors Dr. Azeem Ibrahim May 06, 2021 22:58 Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (L) gestures as he is welcomed upon his arrival ahead of the ASEAN leaders' summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 24, 2021. (Indonesian Presidential Palace photo via REUTERS) Short Url https://arab.news/rcb6a The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is trying to play peacemaker in the ongoing dispute between the people of Myanmar and their democratically elected representatives on the one side, and the Myanmar military, the Tatmadaw, which took pow...
Iran’s hostage diplomacy only makes enemies Dr. Azeem Ibrahim Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/gmj3y Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Kylie Moore-Gilbert are just two in a long line of innocent civilians who have been arrested and held as hostages by Iran. Such hostage taking has been part of the Islamic Republic’s “diplomatic” arsenal from its very foundation in 1979, starting with the notorious Iran hostage crisis, when the new regime in Tehran held more than 50 American diplomatic personnel for over a year. These days, foreign...
New hope for genuine democracy in Myanmar Dr. Azeem Ibrahim Anti-coup protesters march along a street in Yangon, Myanmar on April 24, 2021. (AP) Short Url https://arab.news/99f2r The broad opposition to the military government that took over Myanmar on Feb. 1 has now coalesced around a national unity government, centered on the deposed leader of the last civilian government, Aung San Suu Kyi, and leading National League for Democracy (NLD) figures. This also brings together civil society leaders who have fronted the ongoing civil resistance to the military junta, as well as representatives of...