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Obama’s Engagement with Burma

By Richard Sollom on November 30, 2009

In an op-ed published this weekend in the Global Post, I argue that the Obama Administration must establish benchmarks and present credible consequences should its new strategy of engagement fail to produce movement toward real political change within Burma. The minimum price for continued dialogue should be the unconditional release of all political prisoners and [...]

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Sri Lankan Government Coaching Burmese Junta?

By Richard Sollom on September 11, 2009

Remember the calamitous end to Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long civil war back in May?  Some 16,700 non-combatants were wounded and several thousand more were killed during the final onslaught. Fighting between the 150,000-strong Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the 7,000-strong Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) armed forces resulted in 300,000 displaced minority Tamils.
Although both sides [...]

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