Tag Archives: Banya Hongsar

The words democracy, freedom, federal and liberal have dominated Mon and Burmese political literature over the past twenty years in different ways and under different definitions based on the many social, cultural and political beliefs within the society at large. Mon and Burmese

By Banya Hongsar, Part: 2 Historical ethnic political alliance: The leaders of ethnic armed insurgencies expressed in a formal statement that ‘in the deliberation, we determined that since the time of independence in 1948, successive regimes in power have violated the right to “equality of all citizens irrespective of race,” …

Part 1: The politics of alliance has never been defined in its own narrative within the ethnic writer and scholar in modern political literature in English. However, it has been well written in Burmese and other ethnic languages in the country. It is a complex issue to be explored by …

Searching for inter-ethnic unity in Burma / Myanmar has been an un-reached destination for over half a century. Inter-ethnic unity had been broken as ever before in the last two years during and after Peace Process. The non-signatory and cease-fire groups have been divided in last year just before the …

The Mon people and their own small de-facto State, located in the south of Myanmar, won only four seats in Myanmar’s general elections last November despite having more than 50 ethnic Mon candidates on the ballot.

Introduction In recent weeks Burma’s media has heard the cry for education for all children in rural and remote ethnic areas, as the nation heads toward a democratic government in the 21st century. Burma’s ethnic regions have been marginalized over the past half century due to civil war and oppression …

With the fall of communism and the emerging trend of liberal democracy and economic development in Southeast Asia over