Putting a New Face on Myanmar’s Military

By AUNG ZAW / THE IRRAWADDY| Friday, July 12, 2013  

Burma’s army chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing inspects troops during a parade to mark the 67th anniversary of Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw on March 27, 2012. (Photo: Reuters / Soe Zeya Tun)

This year’s Armed Forces Day was, by all accounts, spectacular.

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The Military's Still in Charge

Why reform in Burma is only skin-deep.   
BY BERTIL LINTNER | JULY 9, 2013    



Since ex-general Thein Sein assumed the presidency in March 2011, foreign observers have generally appeared optimistic that Burma is on its way toward some kind of liberal democracy.

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Rohingya army is coming,pls, be alert

က်ေနာ္တို ့ အစိုးရက ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ား၊ တပ္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာက အရာရွိ အရာခံ စစ္သည္မ်ား၊ တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား၊ လူ၊ ရဟန္း ပုဂၢိဳလ္တို ့ေရ... ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ စစ္သားေတြေတာ့ သင္တန္း တက္ေနၾကပါျပီ။ အေသခံျပီး တိုက္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။

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