ANDREW SELTH | Over the past year, governments and international organisations have imposed sanctions against Myanmar’s military regime and taken various other steps to… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | Since the February 2021 coup, resistance to the junta in Myanmar has grown from protest rallies and civil disobedience campaigns to… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | Over the years, countless attempts have been made to estimate the size of Myanmar’s armed forces (or Tatmadaw). However, the fact… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | It was a year ago today that Myanmar’s armed forces seized power after rejecting the results of a mostly free and… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | It has been just over a year since Myanmar emphatically re-elected Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy as the… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | The decision by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations not to invite Myanmar’s military leader to two related summits… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | When Myanmar’s generals seized power on 1 February, sparking an immediate and massive public reaction, it soon became clear the coup… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | Between 1988, when a pro-democracy uprising in Myanmar was crushed by the country’s security forces, and the installation of a quasi-civilian… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | Predicting Myanmar’s future has always been a risky business. It opened up to academics, journalists and others after the abortive 1988… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | In early 1989, I was passing through Bangkok when a friend from a Western embassy invited me to what she called… Read More
