Articles by Francis Wade
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A Genocide in the Making
Sir Geoffrey Nice and Francis Wade – Foreign Policy,
5 Dec 2016
The world can no longer look away from the intensifying assault on Burma’s Rohingya minority.
→ read full articleBurma’s Hard-Line Buddhists Are Waging a Campaign of Hate That Nobody Can Stop
Francis Wade – Time Magazine,
21 Dec 2015
Sectarian hatred shown by Burma’s Buddhist extremists toward the country’s Muslim minority has become so pronounced that activists and politicians appear unable to stop it.
→ read full articleWest Bank of the East: Burma’s Social Engineering Project
Francis Wade – Los Angeles Review of Books,
16 Nov 2015
The international fixation on Burma’s transition, of which the November elections have been billed as the next step in democratization, obfuscates the fact that processes begun decades ago in areas little scrutinized will persist regardless of changes in government in the coming months. The manipulation of ethnic tensions has long been a strategy of Burma’s rulers, for it locks ethnic groups in a state of perpetual instability that the military can profit by.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Preventing the Next Genocide
Sir Geoffrey Nice , Francis Wade – Foreign Policy,
19 May 2014
The dehumanization process changes the mind of the perpetrators of genocide. The Rakhine may not know that they are at the receiving end of a common tactic that often precedes, and helps normalize, mass killing: the depiction of minority groups as animals. We saw this in Rwanda and we are seeing signs of it now in Burma.
→ read full articleInternational Crisis Group Makes a Mockery of ‘Peace’ in Burma
Francis Wade, Asian Correspondent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
At a glitzy dinner tonight [22 Apr 2013] in New York, where the cover charge for a table can reach heady six figure sums, Burma’s President Thein Sein will be honoured with the International Crisis Group’s top peace award. Across the pond he will receive additional applause from the EU in the form of a termination of all sanctions on Burma, except for its arms embargo.
→ read full articleWestern Hunger for Myanmar’s ‘Cleansed’ Lands
Francis Wade – Al Jazeera,
19 Dec 2011
Recent reforms in Myanmar don’t address the country’s brutal wars against ethnic minorities. A 15-year-old boy told staff from Physicians for Human Rights how he had been forced to walk in front of a Burmese army patrol, ensuring that he and not they took the full blast from any landmine hidden along the path.
→ read full articleJames C Scott: ‘Making a Pact with the Army’
Francis Wade – Democratic Voice of Burma,
17 Oct 2011
James C Scott’s seminal work on the upland people of Zomia, a region stretching from northern Burma to northern Vietnam and encompassing areas of China, Thailand and Laos, has been the subject of widespread applause and fierce debate. The Yale professor talks to DVB about whether communities can still evade the modern-day state in Burma, and whether recognition of the new Burmese government is well-founded.
→ read full articleDr Zarni: The Death of Intellectual Sympathy
Francis Wade – Democratic Voice of Burma,
5 Sep 2011
To belabour the obvious, I am incredibly angry about what has been happening to my country over the past 50-years: Burma is dying a slow-death, by all indications. The more you know the angrier you get. Alas, Western minds are typically incapable of either appreciating this rage over a country’s tragedy but also comprehending any scathing criticism against the “parasitical expert” and other creatures, that make light of our Burmese hell-on-earth.
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