Suu’s strategies failed but NLD will win poll

ASIATIMES

By Htun Aung Gyaw

October 24, 2019

 

Burma’s democratic government has a chance to win a second term in office in the 2020 election because of Aung San Suu Kyi’s fame and her popularity is still strong within the country even though her government is facing many difficulties.

Burmese politicians are preparing for elections in 2020 and that includes the military’s Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. Burmese politics is very complicated with various ethnic issues and armed conflict between ethnic armed groups and the Army (or Tatmadaw) is not going to stop. Both the ruling National League for Democracy party and the military have said they are willing to establish a federal union, but the 2008 constitution drawn up by the military imposes a unitary system.

Decoding The Arakan Army: Insurgent Strategies And Tactics – Analysis.

eurasiareview
March 30, 2019
By IPCS 
By Angshuman Choudhury*

Emblem of Arakan Army. Source: Wikipedia Commons.

Over the past four months, the Arakan Army (AA)—a Rakhine Ethnic Armed Organisation (EAO)—has emerged as a formidable insurgent actor in western Myanmar, particularly Chin and Rakhine states. The AA’s insurgency is based on a mix of conventional and subversive tactics, aimed at gaining strategic dominance in the short term and political-territorial control in the medium-to-long term. Much of its future strategies and operational design will depend on its relationship with the local population and the frequency and degree of the military’s response.