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Going overboard
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/03/2023
» Re:"Women accuses PM's security team of assault," (BP, March 15).
On army brutality
Oped, Postbag, Published on 28/11/2022
» Re: "Mum demands justice after soldier son killed in prison," (Online, Nov 27).
Covert intervention
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/04/2021
» The denunciation of the Tatmadaw's killing of more than 500 of its own unarmed civilians by world leaders and the defence chiefs of several European and Australian nations are platitudes that are bound to fall on deaf ears.
Law is for everyone
News, Postbag, Published on 21/12/2019
» It was reported earlier this week that the army admitted to killing three unarmed civilians in the deep South.
Morally untenable
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/10/2019
» Re: “Not child’s play”, (PostBag, Oct 25). Unfortunately, in his efforts to defend the indefensible, Vint Chavala falls into a common corruption of those whose position is intellectually and morally untenable. He has either not read Yuval Noah Harari’s excellent books, merely copying what others have said about them, or he has failed to understand what Harari says, or he has committed a more serious moral and intellectual sin.
Democracy a must
News, Postbag, Published on 06/02/2019
» Re: "Regime fails on corruption", (Editorial, Feb 4). Imagine that! Despite their most earnest promises, corruption has not improved under the unelected politicians, whose autocratic rule rejects the democratic norms of transparency, honesty and respect for persons that can alone combat corruption! Following May 22, 2014, no other outcome was ever credible.