1988 and 2021: why the generational protests today are importantly different By Martin Smith

Martin Smith has researched and reported about Burma/Myanmar and ethnic nationality affairs since the early 1980s for a variety of media, non-governmental and academic organisations. His publications include Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups in Burma: Development, Democracy and Human Rights, State of Strife: The Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict in Burma, and Arakan (Rakhine State): A Land in Conflict on Myanmar’s Western Frontier. He is a co-founder of the Prospect Burma educational trust, former independent expert member of the Three Diseases Fund board, and senior advisor to the Transnational Institute.

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