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Myanmar Round Up: January 2020 (A round up of selected English open source reports on Myanmar)
Jaideep Chanda Article

Myanmar charged into the New Year with high profile events dominating January 2020, viz. the visit by Xi Jinping; publication of the Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) Report and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) interim verdict. In addi....

February 14, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Xi Jinping , ICOE , ICJ Interim , Japan Myanmar Relations
Myanmar Round Up: December 2019
Aakriti Vinayak Article

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s spirited though controversial visit to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague, to defend her nation, its armed forces and its conduct leading to the Rohingya Crisis, was the predominant event in December. Interna....

January 29, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Myanmar , Peace , Rohingya issue , Neighbourhood studies , ICJ verdict , Arakan army
Xi Hajoor ! Old Wine in the ‘New Era’ for Myanmar
Jaideep Chanda Article

Background
Myanmar effectively boarded the BRI when Aung San Suu Kyi attended the First Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing in May 2017. President Xi Jinping even acknowledged Myanmar in the context of the BRI in ....

January 22, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , New Era , Xi Jinping visits Myanmar , Xi Hajoor! , Documents Signed , Hearts and Minds Investments
VIF Delegation Visit to Myanmar

A delegation from VIF led by Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director and comprising of Lt Gen (Retd) Ravi Sawhney, Amb (Retd) Gautam Mukhopadhaya, Dr Sreeradha Datta and Col Jaideep Chanda visited Myanmar from 9 – 12 December 2019. The delegation interacted....

January 02, 2020 Conference , Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Visit to Myanmar , MISS , Rohingya , UEHRD , Human Rights Commission , Foreign Affairs , MIPS
Digital Empowerment of Myanmar
Radhika Daga Article

Introduction
On Oct 1, 2019, Myanmar celebrated “U-day”, to mark the official transition from its homegrown digital font Zawgyi (pronounced as “zaw-jee”) to a unified font conforming to the international standards of “Unicode�....

December 30, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Myanmar , technology , Cyber-security , Digitalisation
Myanmar Round Up: November 2019
Aakriti Vinayak Article

November saw Myanmar come under coordinated international legal offensive with three cases filed against it in a span of four days, centered around the Rohingya crisis. Internally, the peace process remains stalled and the skirmishes between the Arak....

December 10, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Rohingya issue , Myanmar rebel armies , Myanmar clashes , Myanmar peace
Myanmar Round Up: October 2019
Jaideep Chanda Article

The irony of the democratic process in the ‘imperfect’ democracy that is Myanmar, is the military attempting to use the democratic mechanisms to elbow out the modicum of civilian control that exists! Slowly, but surely, the upcoming ele....

November 21, 2019 Myanmar , Indian Ocean Region , Article , democracy in Myanmar , ethnic armed groups in Myanmar , Rohingiya problem
Rohingya Refugee Children : Que Sara Sara?
Dr Sreeradha Datta Commentary

A recent visit to a Rohingya camp near Cox bazar at Samlapore in Bangladesh revealed a reality that had been known about but not quite understood nor realised its full implications till the prevailing conditions for were seen. As is well documen....

November 18, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Commentary , Rohingiya refugees
Counterproductive Effects of Sanctions - The Myanmar Case Study
Jaideep Chanda

This paper attempts to analyse the trend of certain Western countries and the United Nations (UN) to impose or recommend imposition of sanctions on other countries, using Myanmar as a case study. Presently, certain bans have already been imposed or ....

October 28, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Rohingya crisis , Myanmar sanctions , India-Myanmar ties
Myanmar Round Up: September 2019
Jaideep Chanda Article

“…it is clear that China will never be an honest broker capable of mediating a peace process that can bring lasting peace to Myanmar. Rather, China conducts a peace process guided by its own interests—one that goes nowhere.” - Joe Kumbun

October 18, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Myanmar constitution issues , Rohingya problem
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