Myanmar 2010 Election: Interview with Dr. Ngun Cung Lian
Dr. Ngun Cung Lian* (Mara name – Dr. Ngo Cho Le), one of the Chin Forum Managing Board Members, who was born in East-Maraland, Burma, received a Burmese Refugee Scholarship from the United States Information Agency in 1996 and earned his BA in International Economics and Cultural Affairs from Valparaiso University and his LL.M from the IU School of Law – Bloomington in 2001.
He has been a James J. Robinson Fellow for Graduate Legal Studies; an Earl Snyder Visiting Scholar at Lauterpatch Research Center for International Law at University of Cambridge; a summer visiting fellow at Solomon Asch Center for Studies of Ethnopolitical Conflict at University of Pennsylvania; and a co-founder, Assistant Director and Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
He earned his Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law -Bloomington in May 2007. His dissertation titled, “Ethno-political Conflict, Constitutional Crisis, and Federalism Discords in Contemporary Burma.”
Van Biak Thang of Chinland Guardian talked to Dr. Salai Ngun Cung Lian about the SPDC’s upcoming election, what it means to the peoples of Burma and more.
As the first Chin and Mara Post-Doctoral Scholar in Law in Myanmar also known as Burma, Dr. Pawcho lives in Indianapolis with his wife and young son.
Read the rest of the interview at Chinland Guardian.
(* Note: Many Maras living in East Maraland, Chin state, Myanmar often write their official names in Hakha (Lai) dialect. Dr. Ngo Cho Le too has done the same thing).
