Aung-thwin's ad hominem attack on Tilman Frasch

In his judgement on German scholar of Pagan Tilman Frasch, Aung-thwin clearly indicates that he is head honcho academic agenda setter. You gotta answer his list of research questions or else:

"The latest PhD dissertation written on Pagan as of this writing, Tilman Frasch's work in German completed in 1996, preserves the Mon paradigm. It endorses the alleged raid of Thaton, its possession of the Tipitakas, and Shin Arahan's role, without questioning any of them. And for all of Frasch's proselytizing about having knowledge of Old Burmese being absolutely crucial to any study of Pagan, he cites Luce and The Glass Palace Chronicles as evidence for the above three 'events.' [continuing in a footnote] Tilman Frasch, Pagan: Stadt und Staat, pp. 287-288. My thanks again to Lily Handlin for her reading of the German" (Mists of Ramanna, p. 296-298).

There's also interesting evidence of a personal grudge. Did Frasch tell him that he didn't know Burmese?

He also tries hard to ridicule Frasch. He says Frasch cites a weeny colonial era translation of the Burmese chronicle into English. To admit that you even look at books like this, much less cite them, is to throw your scholarly manhood into question.

It's interesting that he had the Harvard historian of America Handlin translate two pages of this German work for him. Name dropping? I would get tired after two pages of German too, but is two pages enough to judge someone's life work?