A Letter to Special Envoy Julie Bishop during her visit to Myanmar
An open letter urging UN Special Envoy Julie Bishop to confront Myanmar’s military junta directly, seek proof of life and access to Aung San Suu Kyi, and uphold human rights and democratic legitimacy during her visit to Myanmar.
The silence around Aung San Suu Kyi IS the story
Alan Clements examines escalating international pressure on Myanmar’s military junta, highlighting calls from outgoing UN Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews for accountability over alleged human rights abuses and decades of military impunity.
Myanmar’s theatre of power: the release of an elected president by an imposter regime
Alan Clements reports on Myanmar’s mass prisoner amnesty during the traditional New Year period, including the release of former President Win Myint while prominent opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi remained imprisoned under the military-led government.
The theatre of piety at a time of fire: Myanmar’s staged council and the crisis of the sacred
From April 30 to May 2, 2026, in Yangon—within the vast, cavernous stillness of the Maha Pasana Cave at the Kaba Aye Pagoda complex—a grand commemoration unfolds: the seventieth anniversary of the Sixth Buddhist Council.
When a regime invites dialogue, the first question is whether it means freedom
Alan Clements responds to a request for an open forum at the Myanmar Embassy in London, May 14th, 2026
An interview with Fergus Harlow (Burmese) YouTube | Facebook
Fergus Harlow speaks with Wai Phyo Aye about the political reality of national reconciliation and it’s omission from Western news narratives.
Aung San Suu Kyi, media bias and morality
“History rarely collapses in an instant; more often, it is quietly rewritten until reality itself feels negotiable. In the years leading up to Myanmar's 2021 coup, a story took shape in the international imagination -- one that cast Aung San Suu Kyi … as a symbol of moral failure.”
Alan Clements, Substack, March 2026
The Death of Dialogue, and What it is Costing Us
“Across politics, psychology, spirituality, and the so-called healing professions, dialogue itself is collapsing. Not mere disagreement—but true dialogue. The capacity to listen without caricature. To argue without annihilating. To oppose without turning the other into an enemy”
Clements & Harlow, Mizzima, March 2026
The Story that Let the Generals Win: How the West Co-Authored Myanmar’s Collapse
“The generals did not steal Myanmar with guns alone. They stole it with permission – permission engineered through a narrative that relocated blame from the military machine to a civilian symbol”
Alan Clements, Mizzima, March 30, 2026
From Dialogue to Decapitation: The Narrowing Spectrum of Human Conflict
“What distinguished her throughout this period was not simply resilience, but a sustained and deliberate commitment to a principle that is now under profound strain in global political life: the necessity of dialogue.”
Alan Clements, Mizzima, March 22, 2026
Defend Myanmar, Defend Democracy: A Call to World Leaders Before It’s Too Late
“Democracy is under attack—and Myanmar is the front line. Five years after the coup, Myanmar stands as a stark testament to the perils of narrative misdirection.”
Alan Clements, Mizzima, March 3, 2026
What do I mean by regime change?
“When I call for regime change in Myanmar, people ask—sometimes gently, sometimes with alarm—what exactly do I mean?”
Alan Clements, Mizzima, Jan 19, 2026
Lessons from The Idiot: Dostoevsky, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Education of State Terror
“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi … is imprisoned because she embodies a form of authority the junta cannot counterfeit: legitimacy rooted in moral continuity rather than force.”
Alan Clements, Substack, Jan 17, 2026
An excerpt from “Unsilenced: Aung San Suu Kyi - Conversations from a Myanmar Prison”, a work of fiction by Alan Clements
Fergus Harlow, DVB, Jan 16, 2026
As ICJ hearings on Myanmar begin, it must avoid repeating fatal errors
“The ICJ must avoid repeating the central failure of the United Nations’ 2018 Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, which floundered … because the investigation was structurally incomplete.”
Myanmar’s ‘crisis of conscience’ has nothing to do with politics
“Myanmar is not collapsing because of ideology, ethnicity, or geopolitics. It is collapsing because conscience has been systematically severed from power.“
DVB TV Feature interview with Alan Clements
“In this extended interview with DVB journalist Yamin Myatt Aye (Dec. 21, 2025), I speak to the escalating global alarm surrounding the enforced disappearance of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi”
A moment of reckoning for Venezuela but how about Myanmar?
The same week Maduro faced justice, Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado was celebrated internationally for her nonviolent resistance. At that same moment … remains buried alive in prison.
Alan Clements, December 10, 2025
The silent war waged with words — And the woman who refused to fight it
An examination of how language is weaponized under dictatorship and how Aung San Suu Kyi’s moral restraint stands in quiet defiance of propaganda, erasure, and coercion.
Alan Clements, December 10, 2025
The silent war waged with words
On the moral violence of language and the global complicity sustained through euphemism, denial, and strategic silence.
Alan Clements, December 10, 2025
The silent war we wage with words - and the woman who refused to fight it
She refused to vilify the generals who held her captive. She critiqued systems, not souls; policies, not persons; behavior, not humanity.
Alan Clements, November 26, 2025
US Labels Myanmar’s Hell ‘safe’ in Shameful Nod to Junta
US Department of Homeland Security parrots rights-abusing junta’s lines to justify forced returns of Myanmar nationals
Alan Clements, November 5, 2025
The Phantasmagoria of Power: Unmasking Myanmar’s Junta and their Sham December Elections
This isn’t an election; it’s a scripted ritual of self-coronation, where ballots are props, voters are extras, and legitimacy is as illusory as a mirage in the Irrawaddy Delta.
Alan Clements, October 25, 2025
Open Letter to U.S. President Donald Trump
Use your voice to demand the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, and all political prisoners.
Alan Clements, December 2, 2025
Is Aung San Suu Kyi Still Alive? The world can no longer pretend not to know
There are moments when the fate of a single human being reveals the moral condition of the world.
Alan Clements, September 23, 2025
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is Gravell Ill. The World Must Act Now
Recently Kim Aris, the youngest son of 80-year-old Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, told The Independent (UK) that his mother – Burma’s imprisoned democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate – is gravely ill with worsening heart disease.
Alan Clements, September 8, 2025
Aung San Suu Kyi is Gravelly Ill - and the World Must Act
Global leaders must break their silence and raise their voices to demand ailing Suu Kyi’s immediate release from prison.
Alan Clements, November 6, 2025
A reminder of Aung San Suu Kyi’s moral courage
At the request of Kim Aris, son of Aung San Suu Kyi, Fergus Harlow’s Letter to Religions for Peace Italy and its accompanying fifteen-minute video were created as acts of service and solidarity.
Alan Clements, October 25, 2025
The ASEAN Summit — a rare visit that spotlights Southeast Asia’s delicate dance between great powers
Alan Clements, September 10, 2025
Act now as Suu Kyi is gravely ill
An urgent call to action warning of Aung San Suu Kyi’s deteriorating health and the irreversible cost of delay. Grounded in humanitarian law and moral duty, the piece demands immediate international response.
Alan Clements, November 7, 2025
The world’s silence and the woman who would not be silent
I urge every journalist, faith leader, and citizen of conscience to take 15 minutes and watch. It may alter how you see not only Aung San Suu Kyi, but the very idea of moral courage itself.
Alan Clements, November 6, 2025
The world’s silence and the woman who would not be silent: Aung San Suu Kyi and the work of truth
Let us be clear: Aung San Suu Kyi was never silent. Not on the Rohingya crisis. Not on her people’s suffering. Not on the imperatives of peace and reconciliation.
Fergus Harlow, July 6, 2025
A Theatre of Conscience: Q&A with Alan Clements
What if a book could confront a dictator—and invite his redemption?
Fergus Harlow, April 21, 2025
The myths that enabled Myanmar’s 2021 military coup
Three enduring myths helped set the stage for Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, all of them centred on Aung San Suu Kyi and her role in the Rohingya crisis
Fergus Harlow, March 16, 2025
In the shadow of empire: Myanmar’s battle for narrative control
In 2003, 80 percent of U.K. voters trusted the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to be objective; today, that figure has plummeted to just 38 percent, with problematic political coverage cited as the primary cause.
Derek Tonkin, Network Myanmar, June 2025
Alan Clements and Fergus Harlow, January 31, 2025
Alan Clements, September 28, 2024