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The dirty business of doing deals with Myanmar's military

  • Written by Htwe Htwe Thein, Associate professor, Curtin University
the dirty business of doing deals with Myanmar's militaryGemunu Amarasinghe/AP

Myanmar’s transition from five decades of military rule is a work in progress.

Despite the junta’s formal dissolution in 2010, the release of political prisoners including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and democratic reforms allowing National League Democracy to win government in 2015, the military...

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