Why the stalemate in Myanmar persists
The generals are still unwilling to make concessions
SUSPENDED IN THE air, several feet above Aung San Suu Kyi’s head, was an image of a dove with an olive branch in its beak. Ms Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s leader, was delivering her opening remarks at the “21st Century Panglong Conference”, a series of talks designed to end the numerous ethnic insurgencies that have ravaged her country since its founding in 1948. The poster of the dove gestures towards the hope Ms Suu Kyi inspired when she was elected in 2015 that she might one day silence the guns.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Will it ever stop?”
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