Myanmar
Defusing the ticking time-bomb in Cox’s Bazar
Over the last month, almost half a million Rohingyas have fled from Rakhine State in Myanmar to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. That represents approximately half of the entire…
Commentary
Why Kevin Rudd is wrong about Aung San Suu Kyi
Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Aaron L Connelly
Aung San Suu Kyi still bent on constitutional change
Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party took power in Myanmar promising change, but are yet to deliver. The problems faced by the incoming administration were…
Myanmar: A test case for India’s regional ambition
India has scored a string of recent geopolitical victories in Asia: the alleged sale of the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile to Vietnam; a further deepening of the strategic…
Stranger kings: Ancient traditions of Chinese power in northeastern Myanmar
The world is transfixed by the appalling situation in Myanmar's Rakhine State, itself a story of sojourning populations, commercial networks that go back to ancient times, and the…
A big step back for Myanmar
It is always difficult to know exactly what is happening in Myanmar, particularly when eye-witness accounts and reliable reports are dismissed by the Naypyidaw government as …
The twisted politics of terrorism in Myanmar
The major and protracted humanitarian crisis in Myanmar's northern Rakhine State has serious local, regional and global implications. Many have rightly deplored the human rights…
Aung San Suu Kyi: The myth turns to dust
For much of her career, Aung San Suu Kyi has been less a real person than the character in a film script - one with the crudely redemptive arc of a Hollywood blockbuster.
The…
Commentary
'Aung San Suu Kyi makes things worse for Rohingya'
Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald (Photo: Getty Images/Pool)
Aaron L Connelly
The Tadmadaw returns to the ‘four cuts’ doctrine
In the past week, some 40,000 people from Myanmar's Rakhine State have fled to Bangladesh amid reports of indiscriminate killing and property damage by the Myanmar military. The…