Author: Shahid Bolsen

You’ll rarely find anyone who talks about the need to look at the root causes of the conflict in Arakan mentioning economics. Big mistake

There is a lot of talk about the need to address the “root causes” of the conflict in Rakhine, but this seldom includes discussion of the actual key issue: the ethnic ruling class inhabit a patch of land that is entirely empty of resources. All the natural wealth of Myanmar is in the periphery, and…