ABOUT PROJECT MAJE

Project Maje is an independent information project on Burma's human rights and environmental issues. It was founded by its project director, Edith Mirante, in 1986. Ms. Mirante is the author of Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma's Frontiers and Burmese Looking Glass. Her most recent book is The Wind in the Bamboo: A Journey in Search of Asia's Indigenous 'Negrito' Peoples. Her sketchbooks are at www.edithmirante.com.

Burmese Looking Glass

HISTORY THREADS ON TWITTER

On Twitter @edithmirante posts a History Thread each month, usually about Burma/Myanmar. Links to them are below.

BURMA HISTORY & CULTURE

• History of sabotage as a tactic in Burma (Posted April 9, 2021)
• Responses by Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) against Burma (Myanmar) Feb. 2021 coup (Posted Mar. 18, 2021)
• The poetry of Burma (Myanmar) and political resistance (Posted Mar. 6, 2021)
• Labor organizing in Burma (Posted Feb. 17, 2021)
• About Burma's murdered & missing women (Posted Feb. 9, 2021)
• Background on Resistance to Oppression in Burma (Posted Feb 3, 2021)
• Tourism in Burma (Posted Jan. 27, 2021)

WORLD WAR 2 IN BURMA

• OSS Detachment 101 in World War 2 Burma (Posted Oct. 28, 2020)
• WW2 War Artists in Burma (Posted August 19, 2020)

HISTORICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DISASTERS:

• Burma and natural disasters (posted June 24, 2020)
• A brief history of health care professionals in Burma (posted May 20, 2020)
• Malaria in Burma (posted April 22, 2020)
• Epidemics & pandemics (posted March 18, 2020)

HUMAN RIGHTS & ACCOUNTABILITY:

• About 1994 Project Maje report "A Swamp Full of Lilies" a data organizing effort for accountability (posted Feb 26, 2020)

BURMA MARITIME ISSUES

• The Maritime History of Burma (Posted January 21, 2020)
• Salone people, sea nomads of Burma. (known as Moken in Thailand & in their own language.) (Posted December 18, 2019)

ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE EXTRACTION

• Wildlife in Burma (Posted Nov. 18, 2020)
• Logging & Forests in Burma (Posted December 20, 2020)
• Resource issues in Sagaing Region (Division) (posted November 20, 2019)
• Resource issues in Magway Region (aka Magwe Division.) (posted August 21, 2019)
• Burma's petroleum sector (posted July 24, 2019)
• The rivers of Burma (posted May 22, 2019)
• Mining an array of minerals in Burma (posted April 24, 2019)

KACHIN STATE

History Threads about Kachin State, Burma, posted to Twitter by Project Maje director Edith Mirante (@edithmirante) to provide background and context:

• Kachin education in wartime (posted October 23, 2019)
• Kachin Military History (posted Oct. 25, 2018)
• Protests against the war in Kachinland (posted May 16, 2018)
• The Amber War in Kachin State (posted Feb. 7, 2018)

1990s BURMA FRONTIERS

• 1990s Burma frontier regions as described in Down the Rat Hole (posted September 25, 2019)

KARENNI (KAYAH) STATE

• Karenni independence and resistance (posted March 27, 2019)

CHIN STATE

History Threads about Chin State, Burma, posted to Twitter by Project Maje director Edith Mirante (@edithmirante) to provide background and context:

• Refugees from Chin State (posted Feb. 20, 2019)
• Chin military history (posted Jan. 16, 2019)

1980s BURMA/THAILAND

• 1980s Thailand/Burma border as described in Burmese Looking Glass (posted September 27, 2018)

RAKHINE STATE (ARAKAN)

A series of History Threads about Rakhine State (Arakan) Burma, posted to Twitter by Project Maje director Edith Mirante (@edithmirante) to provide background and context regarding 2016-17 Rohingya crisis:

• Rohingya Diaspora beyond Bangladesh (posted 19 Dec 2018)
• Brief sketch of Arakan (now Rakhine State) military history (posted August 22, 2018)
• Background on environmental issues affecting Rakhine State (posted July 25, 2018)
• The small-scale Rohingya armed resistance pre-2016 (posted June 21, 2018)
• Bangladesh government plan to relocate Rohingya refugees to a remote island (posted April 11, 2018)
• Ethnic people of northern Rakhine State who are not Rakhine or Rohingya (Posted March 14, 2018)
• Rice, Rakhines and Rohingyas (posted Jan. 28, 2018)
• Notes on 1991 Rohingya refugee exodus to Bangladesh. (Posted Sept. 12, 2017)
• Rakhine (Buddhist) legacy of resisting Burmese military rule. (Posted Sept. 20, 2017)
• Aftermath of 1991-92 Rohingya refugee crisis. (Posted Oct. 4, 2017)
• Notes on how "counterinsurgency" and accusations of terrorism have been used against Rohingyas of Rakhine St. (Posted Oct. 18, 2017)
• About the Arakan Army (Rakhine Buddhist ethnic armed organization) in context of current crisis. (Posted Nov. 7, 2017)
• Post-1988 Buddhist settlement in the northern part of Rakhine State (Arakan). (Posted Dec. 20, 2017)

For background on 1991 Arakan situation, see Our Journey and for background on 2012 crisis see Burma's Human Rights Blind Spot: A Compendium on Violence Against Rohingyas.

HUMANITARIAN AID

Donations to help the people of Burma can be made to:

Community Partners International, providing health care and education:
www.cpintl.org

Burma Humanitarian Mission, delivering medical supplies and training:
www.burmamission.org/

CONTACT:

Contact Project Maje via email.