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    Peace process at risk of disintegrating

    Oped, Larry Jagan, Published on 19/08/2020

    » Myanmar's civilian government has made peace and national reconciliation a central platform of its administration since taking office in early 2016. But after almost five years very little has been achieved and the peace process is yet again precariously poised. The next stage -- the fourth round of the Panglong talks as Aung San Suu Kyi dubbed it after her historic electoral victory five years ago -- is scheduled to start today in the capital Nay Pyi Taw but is in danger of disintegrating into disarray.

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    The Panglong peace process is precariously poised

    News, Larry Jagan, Published on 28/10/2019

    » Myanmar's stalled peace process is precariously poised, and may now be in danger of falling apart all together, as mistrust and hostility between some of the ethnic groups and the military worsened significantly. The fragile relationships between the three key players deteriorated further on the eve of the anniversary of the signing of a key peace pact, and the hopes of kick-starting negotiations and bringing the groups back to the table took a tumble for the worst.

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    Does BRN really want peace?

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/08/2013

    » The Barisan Revolusi Nasional's postponement of peace talks and renewal of its five demands has placed the peace process in jeopardy, and strengthened the extremists' hand.

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    Army, NSC miles apart on peace talks

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/03/2013

    » There is a clear lack of unity between the army and the National Security Council (NSC) on two key issues relating to the first formal peace talk between the government and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) separatist organisation scheduled in Kuala Lumpur on March 28.

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    Myanmar's peace process stumbles on

    News, Larry Jagan, Published on 19/03/2018

    » Myanmar's peace process is precariously poised with Panglong -- or the national peace conference as it is formally called -- set to meet in May. Several more ethnic groups -- including the Wa -- have agreed to sign the national ceasefire agreement (NCA). But, despite this, the peace process is in danger of disintegrating.

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    Peace talks feature symbolism, scepticism

    News, New York Times, Published on 02/09/2016

    » In the grandest gesture yet of her young administration, Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, opened a peace conference on Wednesday to bring together hundreds of the country's ethnic armed groups in hopes of ending decades of conflict.

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    Time for a Seoul-Tokyo peace pact

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 12/08/2019

    » I love kimchi and I love ramen. I love the bushido way of life and Japanese humility, and I love South Koreans' resilience and devotion to education that helped them lift their country from poverty after World War II to become an Asian economic powerhouse. And in my opinion, both South Koreans and Japanese are among the nicest people in the world.

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    China weighs up its role in Myanmar peace talks

    News, Anthony Davis, Published on 14/06/2016

    » In what has traditionally been a boots-and-bayonets conflict fought a long way from media coverage, an unusual photo circulating on the internet last week revealed that Myanmar's military is now using armed drones in operations against ethnic insurgents. Probably taken on a serviceman's mobile phone and posted on a Facebook account, the image showed soldiers preparing a Chinese-built CH-3A unmanned combat aerial vehicle for take-off at an airfield in the north of the country.

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    New southern peace moves must be conditional

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/05/2013

    » It takes two to tango, so the saying goes, but the government appears to going it alone with its plan to revoke arrest warrants for some suspected insurgents and selectively lift the emergency decree in the deep South.

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    An act of utter cowardice

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/05/2013

    » The cold-blooded murder of six innocent civilians, one of them a two-year old boy, in Pattani on the eve of Labour Day by four insurgents is anything but an act of a "war of liberation", as the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) separatist group would have the Thai public to believe.

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