Author of "Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal's Tarai". Working with displaced people along the Thai/Myanmar border
Thai/Myanmar border
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Even recent political movements across the Tarai have focused almost exclusively on regional representation and identity—leaving the underlying feudal structure that keeps 40% of agricultural households landless virtually untouched. Read Maximillian Mørch's (@max_morch) review of Fraser Sugden’s Land, Labour and Agrarian Change in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh: himalmag.com/land-reform-nep…
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Why have decades of political upheaval—from 1960s land reforms to a Maoist insurgency and Madhesh uprisings—failed to dismantle landlordism in Nepal’s southern plains?
Maximillian Mørch (@max_morch) reviews Fraser Sugden’s book on the political economy of the Tarai-Madhesh: himalmag.com/land-reform-nep…
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“Rarely has the gap between global crises and credible solutions felt so wide.”
A review essay by Maximillian Morch (@max_morch) revisits the life of U Thant, the Burmese diplomat who led the United Nations through the world’s gravest geopolitical crises, and asks what happened to the institution he once represented.
From 1961 to 1971, U Thant served as Secretary-General during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Congo Crisis, the India–Pakistan war, the Six-Day War and Vietnam. Thant Myint-U’s new book, 'Peacemaker', serves as a portrait not only of a largely forgotten global diplomat but also of the United Nations itself. It examines how a formally neutral institution sought to influence events, shape political outcomes and exercise diplomatic authority at the height of Cold War superpower rivalry.
“At a moment when the UN appears increasingly marginal – unable to resolve or even much influence the defining crises of our age – the book feels especially timely.”
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Today, ND-Burma member, @aapp_burma, releases a new report on the relentless targeting of civilians across the country. These attacks have resulted in a high number of civilian deaths and injuries, as well as extensive damage to civilian property. See more & download here 👇
New AAPP Report! From Civilians to Military Targets.
Civilians in #Myanmar are continuously targeted by the military's heavy weaponry and airstrikes. Targets include villages and wards, monasteries with IDPs, schools and hospitals.
Read it here: aappb.org/?p=34416
Thrilled to see my book Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal's Tarai featured in Himal Southasian’s list of 'Six books to understand Nepal’s recent upheaval' An honour to share the spotlight with Pratyoush Onta, Prashant Jha, Manjushree Thapa, John Whelpton & others
Earlier this month, I sat down with Border Echo and the Karen Information Centre to discuss historic policy reforms, impact of funding cuts, and the evolving situation for internally displaced people in southeastern Myanmar amid ongoing conflict.
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This framing of Bagram is inane. Bagram held a military prison where scores of Afghans were held without charge, many tortured, some even killed. What is the point of trying to recapture this "sprawling symbol of American power" when it was utilized to be cruel to the population?
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The Government is doing its best at the moment to imply it has no problem with the ethnonationalism now rearing its ugly head. And I don't understand why. 1/5
The recognition of refugee work rights is a historic step forward after 41 years of confinement to camps, but it’s only one part of a much broader process. The journey toward inclusive, whole-of-community solutions must continue.
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✊In May 2025, @APFHumanRights removed junta's controlled #MNHRC from its regional human rights network, following the removal of its accreditation by #GANHRI in Dec 2024 & its membership in Mar 2025.
🚨It’s time for #SEANF to do the same
Press release: bit.ly/4owD9vl
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According to the Watson School of International and Public Affairs in Rhode Island, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the war in Afghanistan combined.
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🎙️ #StateofSouthasia: @max_morch discusses Bhutan's ambitions to revive its ailing economy with the Geluphu Mindfulness City and how it ignores the displacement of the Lhotshampa people from the region. himalmag.com/podcast/maximil…
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📣 🎙️ Coming up on State of Southasia, Maximillian Morch (@max_morch), who researches Asia's borderlands, talks to @nayantaran about the economic strife and the history of repression behind Bhutan's mega project – the Gelephu Mindfulness City.
Bhutan’s new Mindfulness City is hailed as sustainable & values-based—but built on land once home to Lhotshampa refugees expelled in the 1990s.
I speak on the State of Southasia podcast (@Himalistan) about what this project erases.
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Today in the ARB: @max_morch reviews “Waterways of Bangkok: Memory, Landscape and Twilight” by Michael Hurley @NUS_Press asianreviewofbooks.com/water…
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📣 🎙️ Coming up on State of Southasia, Maximillian Morch (@max_morch), who researches Asia's borderlands, talks to @nayantaran about the economic strife and the history of repression behind Bhutan's mega project – the Gelephu Mindfulness City.
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The IDF dropped a 500lb bomb into a cafe in Gaza on Monday. We saw & identified fragments.
They had conducted "aerial surveillance" so knew it was crowded with civilians.
They had other precise munitions available.
Up to 40 died, more injured.
My report:
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This is the story of Miriam - who died a day before she was approved medical evacuation.
She was one of 4,000 children who the WHO says are in urgent need of medical care that is not available inside Gaza.
Warning: this report contains distressing images.
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1. This History Thread is about the military history of the Karen people of Burma (Myanmar.) Karen people have fought one of the longest-running resistance wars, spanning decades & have made recent gains vs Myanmar coup regime. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
