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Validating Kachinland’s Independent Colleges- Between market and ethnic communities
Education has long been an area of friction between the state and the Kachin people. Schools have become a site for ‘Burmanization’, the cultural imposition of the dominant Bamar ethnic group onto the country’s minorities in terms of language, cultures and historical narratives. In common with other ethnic minority organisations with high degrees of autonomy, the political wing of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) has been running its own secondary schools outside of state control.
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Timo Kivimäki,
Senior Researcher
NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Rohingyas – the forgotten people of Burma turning up on Thailand´s paradise beaches
Martin Gemzell,
Asia Program Manager
Olof Palme International Center
THE POLITICAL PARANOIA OF THE BURMESE GENERALS
By Mikael Gravers
Why is it so difficult to get international aid into Burma and to help the survivors of the cyclone? And why is the regime afraid of foreign humanitarian assistance?
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