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Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity

By Martin Smith

Book information

Publisher
The University Press / White Lotus / Zed Books
Year
1999
ISBN
1856496600, 9781856496605
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
85 MB (88897720 bytes)
Series
Politics in Contemporary Asia
Edition
2 (updated)
Pages
521\548
Library
Internet Archive
Time added
2021-07-14 23:40:39

Description

Burma remains a land in deep crisis. The popular uprising of 1988 swept away 26 years of military rule under General Ne Win in name only. The National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in the 1990 election. But, as this book relates, the military remained in control and the future of Burma looks more problematic than ever. With unparalleled command of largely inaccessible Burmese sources and interviews with many of the leading participants, Martin Smith charts the rise of modern political parties and unravels the complexities of the long-running insurgencies waged by opposition groups, including the Communist Party of Burma, the Karen National Union and a host of other ethnic nationalist movements. In this revised and updated edition, the author vividly explains how one of the most fertile and potentially prosperous countries in Asia has collapsed to become one of the world's poorest.

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