The thesis goal is to determine the role played by ethnic
minority groups in democratization of Burma. The past decades
events show how the ethnic dimension negatively affects the
lives of the Burma people, especially of Arakan, Chin, Kachin,
Kaya, Karen, Shan and Mons minority ethnic groups. The junta
military government marginalized minority rights and excluded
minority ethnic groups from all the happenings in the country
throughout his reign. The March 2011 brought big expectations;
the power in Burma passed to new quasi-civilian government.
This situation led to a helpful dealing with the democratic
opposition led by the National League for Democracy (NLD),
which began the reforms. This case study identifies role of
ethnic groups through several theoretical approaches, which
include the theory of conflict and its causes, regimes of
ethnicity and state policies and the position of ethnic groups
in the political arena. This approaches form a complex that
describes the political, socio-economic and cultural status of
minority ethnic groups.