{"id":198425,"date":"2021-11-01T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=198425"},"modified":"2021-10-28T04:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T03:52:24","slug":"on-myanmars-dead-nationwide-ceasefire-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/11\/on-myanmars-dead-nationwide-ceasefire-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"On Myanmar\u2019s Dead Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>17 Oct 2021 – Maung Zarni blew the whistle on military-led top-down democratic reforms \u2013 which he argued were, in the final instance, cosmetic as early as these \u201creforms\u201d were launched by the Burmese generals in 2010. To his rage and dismay, this \u201ctransition\u201d was blessed by none other than Aung San San Suu Kyi\u00a0 and celebrated by Western media and powerful external actors.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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March 2021: Yangon, Myanmar. @zinkohein Zinko Hein, Unsplash<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cProspects for reconciliation between Myanmar\u2019s most powerful national military and the dominant majority Burmese society that view the former as little more than a Fascist-like occupation force, do not exist.<\/p>\n

Myanmar or Burma has now entered a new phase of a full-blown Zero Sum conflict which may be inaccurately labeled as \u201ccivil-military\u201d or \u201cstate-society\u201d vertical conflict. Though made respectable and legitimate as the crucial state actor by the ousted NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi and by external actors bent on doing business in Myanmar,\u00a0 the country\u2019s military known as the Tatmadaw (or feudal or royal armed forces) has long morphed into a terrorist criminal syndicate. Today that\u2019s the common perception or shared conclusion of the Burmese public.<\/p>\n

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FORSEA\u2019s Maung Zarni blew the whistle about the military-led top-down democratic reforms \u2013 which he argued were, in the final instance, cosmetic as early as these \u201creforms\u201d were launched by the Burmese generals in 2010. To his rage and dismay, this \u201ctransition\u201d was blessed by none other than Aung San San Suu Kyi\u00a0 and celebrated by Western media,\u00a0 powerful external actors such as the United Nations, United States, European Union, Australia, international financial institutions and, last but not least, a plethora of influential thinktanks (for instance, the International Crisis Group) and in-house or freelance consultants on Myanmar.<\/p>\n

FORSEA is reposting a fairly diplomatically worded analysis which the FORSEA co-founder wrote in 2012, when the dust of Myanmar\u2019s hyped up reforms began to settle.<\/p>\n

TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original – forsea.co<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Further readings:<\/em><\/p>\n

Reforms in Myanmar: Hype and Realities | Zarni\u2019s Blog (maungzarni.net)<\/a><\/p>\n

Zarni comes out firing at Burma experts, again \u2013 New Mandala<\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t buy into Burma\u2019s cosmetic reforms | Opinions | Al Jazeera<\/a><\/p>\n

TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Open Letter to International Crisis Group – 6 May 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

The International Crisis Group Report on Burma\/Myanmar\u2013An Analysis – 25 Oct 2021<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

17 Oct 2021 – Maung Zarni blew the whistle on military-led top-down democratic reforms \u2013 which he argued were, in the final instance, cosmetic as early as these \u201creforms\u201d were launched by the Burmese generals in 2010. To his rage and dismay, this \u201ctransition\u201d was blessed by none other than Aung San San Suu Kyi\u00a0 and celebrated by Western media and powerful external actors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":198426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[240,1692,1924,2410,244,393,276,558,100,487,651,780,2411,171,527,985,2437,99,124],"class_list":["post-198425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-updates-on-myanmar-rohingya-genocide","tag-asia","tag-aung-san-suu-kyi","tag-authoritarianism","tag-burma","tag-china","tag-coup","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-direct-violence","tag-human-rights","tag-justice","tag-military-intervention","tag-myanmar","tag-revolution","tag-rohingya","tag-social-justice","tag-southeast-asia","tag-structural-violence","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}