Myanmar military nuclear ambitions: Fact or fiction?
ANDREW SELTH | A front page story in the Sydney Morning Herald in 2009 confidently predicted that within five years Myanmar would have its… Read More
Burma
The first casualty of war is the truth: Myanmar casualty statistics may be skewed
ANDREW SELTH | Since the latest civil war began in Myanmar in 2021, elements of the opposition movement have been making increasingly bold claims about its battlefield successes and the problems facing the military regime. Some of these claims need to be treated very carefully. Read More
Memories of Burma’s art scene in the 1970s
ANDREW SELTH | As one gets older, memories of past times and old friends tend to fade, but they also become more important… Read More
The persistence of sexual violence in conflict: Ending the zero-sum approach
SARA E DAVIES AND JACQUI TRUE | Over twenty years ago, UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security… Read More
Myanmar’s military mindset
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
Supporting the victims of sexual violence in Myanmar
PHYU PHYU OO AND SARA E DAVIES | Conflict-related sexual violence has been a feature of fighting in Myanmar for decades – a… Read More
Myanmar and a new kind of civil war
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
The upward spiral of violence in Myanmar
ANDREW SELTH | The clashes in Myanmar’s streets between largely peaceful protesters and armed members of the security forces over recent weeks evoke memories… Read More
Myanmar’s personalised politics
ANDREW SELTH | Anyone looking at photographs and film footage of events in Myanmar could be forgiven for thinking that the violent confrontation… Read More
Foreigners, fighting and phaleristics: Military medals in British Burma
ANDREW SELTH | It has been said that a country’s culture is a window unto its soul. With this in mind, it has become… Read More
