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Politics of exclusion must end
Oped, Published on 22/10/2020
» As we approach the November general election, it is essential that we learn from the tragic mistakes in our history if the present peace and reform process is to succeed. During the hasty countdown to independence in 1948, a non-inclusive Panglong conference took place and, subsequently, not all parties contested elections to a constituent assembly that drew up the country's new constitution. Our newly formed state thus became independent without solving vital political and ethnic issues. Within a year unrest and conflict had broken out across the country.
Rebel with a cause
Spectrum, Published on 04/08/2013
» When Lahpai Seng Raw, along with several other prominent Kachin, first started the Metta Foundation in 1998, she was faced with a humanitarian crisis in northern Myanmar and a lack of funds to deal with it.