Karin Dean Writes on the Situation in Myanmar

"Peace means surrender in Myanmar", Karin Dean, Senior Researcher at
Tallinn University Estonian Institute of Humanities, writes in Asia Times
Online.She analyses the situation in Myanmar, especially in Kachin State
where the Kachin must subjugate their "demands for political dialogue,
autonomy and rights" under the new policies of President Thein Sein.
Despite the recent support from the West, it seems that as the war in
Kachin State proceeds, President Sein's "quasi-civilian government
increasingly looks and acts like the previous military regime the West
sanctioned and isolated rather than embraced".Read the full article
here.Karin Dean, a political geographer, has conducted research on Kachin
communities for the past decade.