In 2011 armed hostilities between the Kachin Independence Organisation and Myanmar Army ended a 17-year ceasefire agreement. The unwillingness of local Kachin people and the Kachin …
This volume explores how ordinary people in present-day Myanmar obtain justice and resolve disputes and crimes in a time of radical transition in government, politics, society, …
While the image of modern Myanmar/Burma tends to be couched in human rights terms and especially of a heroic Aung San Suu Kyi opposing an oppressive military regime, in reality …