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Can We Resolve Political Crisis in Burma?

Burma, officially known as Myanmar, has an abundance of natural resources. It is the largest country on the mainland of Southeast Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Thailand. It has a total area of 261,969 sq mi (678,500 sq km) and land boundaries of 5,876 km (Bangladesh and India in the west, with borders of 193 km and 1,463 km respectively). China, Thailand and Laos are also neighbors of Burma in the east, with borders of 2,185 km, 1,800 km, and 235 km respectively. Burma is also famous for its diverse ethnicities. In fact, there are about 135 ethnic nationalities residing in Burma.

The current Burmese “Nation-State” or “the Union of Burma” is a relatively recent creation, existing only since the end of the colonial era. Many of the ethnic nationalities oppose the claim that their lands and their people had been brought under the rule of any Burman kingdoms prior to their annexation by the British annexation. Instead, they claim to have governed their own territories independently for centuries or millennia.

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Marijuana being sold in Site-tway (Sittwe) University canteens

January 5, 2010

Ko Khine Mrat Lunn of the Site-tway University Students’ Union (SUSU) has told the Arakan Review that “university students from Site-tway University are buying Marijuana cheaply from canteens in the university compound and using it with a local brand of cigarettes called “Three Lions”.

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Statement on the 225th Anniversary of the Loss of National Sovereignty of Arakan

Date: December 31, 2009
Ref: AASYC/ GHQ/ Release/ 13/ 09

Since 6000 B.C.E, the Arakanese nation stood proud amongst the nations of the world, exercising sovereignty and developing independent literature and culture. However, taking advantage of the lack of national solidarity and a period of political instability in the history of Arakan, in 1784 the Burman chauvinists invaded and colonized Arakan after a request by the Royal Court of Arakan to intervene in a palace crisis and install a new a prince on the throne.

Not content with the occupation and colonization of Arakan, imperialist Burman governors took measures to Burmanize the language, literature and culture of Arakan between 1784 and 1826. By committing mass rape and forced marriage against Arakanese women, the Burman expansionists plotted the extinction of our nationality.

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