... refugees Myanmar military junta Burma Bangladesh British Empire colonialism migration Buddhists Muslims Rakhine ethnic cleansing genocide Aung San Suu Kyi 149 Myanmar has consolidated its impunity, making its crimes a fait accompli. To do so, it first destabilized the legitimacy...

... States? The answer lies in the new scramble for Myan- mar that began with market liberalization in 2011, followed by the democratic turn in 2012, when the military allowed the first free elections in five decades and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, after years under house arrest, was elected...

.... 2016 The Regents of the University of California Mandy Sadan Myanmar Burma Daw Aung San Suu Kyi elections National League Democracy Panglong Agreement democracy nationalism communal violence British colonial legacy Buddhism ethnic minorities 214 Burmese politicians...

... era political economic pariah military junta power behind 2011 aung san suu kyi thein sein NLD opposition National league democracy cease-fire civil war aung min cabinet union land seizure mandate kyat Burma Burmese ATM kachin budget defense security council...

... Catharin Dalpino Southeast Asia Myanmar Philippines Thailand authoritarianism democratization performance legitimacy Aung San Suu Kyi Thaksin Shinawatra 235 As Southeast Asian democracies mature, the pressure of performance legitimacy is gradually moving politics from personalities...

... in the United States tends to focus narrowly on the political conflict between the government and the opposition in central Myanmar, led by Nobel lau- reate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. This myopia ignores the possibility that, at least in its ethnic minor- ity areas, Myanmar is on the verge of becoming a failed state...

... politics and abuse the citizenry. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Burma Rangoon SPDC Aung San Suu Kyi NLD KNU United States Thailand ASEAN 183 The optimism surrounding the possibility of a democratic thaw in 2002...