Burma in Revolt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Burma in Revolt write by Bertil Lintner. This book was released on 1999-05-01. Burma in Revolt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1948, Burma was a promising young democracy with a bustling free market economy and a standard of living that surpassed nearly all of its other Asian neighbours. Fifty years later, Burma is one of the poorest nations in the world, with a military dictatorship in Rangoon and 50,000 armed rebels from a myriad of ethnic insurgency groups. In this well documented and detailed account, well-known Burma journalist Bertil Lintner explains the nexus between Burma’s booming drug production and its insurgency and counter-insurgency, providing an answer to the question of why Burma has been unable to shake off thirty-five years of military rule and build a modern, democratic society. Lintner’s lively account is interspersed with numerous anecdotes gleaned from personal research and interviews. Individuals are given features and personality in the complicated “jigsaw” of Burma’s modern history. Beginning with the shock of Aung San’s murder in 1947, Lintner retraces events from the 1920s that led to this disastrous event and continues his narrative up to the present, navigating the reader through webs of intrigue involving power, politics and drugs. Key players are the Rangoon government, the ethnic resistance, the Communists, the Kuomintang, and the US government. This revised and updated edition includes five extensive appendixes for serious readers and Burma scholars alike: a list of acronyms, a chronology of events, a who’s who of important figures in Burma’s insurgency, an annotated list of rebel armies, and biographical sketches of the Thirty Comrades. “Bertil Lintner, one of Burma’s (Myanmar’s) closest and most incisive observers, has written an important book. It is more than a study of the drug trade and the minority rebellions. It is in a sense a history of Burma since independence. No one concerned with Burma, with Southeast Asia, or with international narcotics affairs can neglect this work”. — David I. Steinberg, Georgetown University
Burma in Revolt
Burma in Revolt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Burma in Revolt write by Bertil Lintner. This book was released on 1998-10-05. Burma in Revolt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The product of thirteen years of research, interviews, and experience, this is the most authoritative book ever written on the interrelationship of drugs, insurgency, counterinsurgency, and politics in Burma. Widely respected as one of the world’s leading experts on Burma, Bertil Lintner has drawn on his extensive travels and personal meetings with rebel commanders, ethnic leaders, and other key figures to present a compelling and comprehensive picture of politics and society in a poor and bitterly divided country.Fighting between the central government and myriad political and ethnic insurgencies entered its forty-seventh year in 1994, with no solution in sight. While other countries in the region are developing into freer, more open societies, once-democratic Burma has been ruled by a medieval military dictatorship since 1962. The complex nexus between the drug problem, military rule, and Burma’s civil war has rarely been considered when international narcotics agencies have evaluated the drug problem in the Golden Triangle. Consequently, millions of dollars have been wasted in a misguided effort to treat the problem as a localized vice, rather than addressing the underlying historical, social, and economic factors behind the drug explosion. Meanwhile, opium production is increasing steadily, year by year.This book aims to explore the inextricable links among Burma’s booming drug production, insurgency, and counterinsurgency and to explain why the country has been unable to shake off over thirty years of military rule to build a modern democratic society. Burma’s ethnic strife, the author argues, is not a peripheral problem confined to the country’s border areas. Without a lasting solution to ethnic divisions and the civil war they have fueled, Burma will remain a source of political despair—and the opium it grows will continue to flood the markets of the world.
Burma In Revolt
Burma In Revolt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Burma In Revolt write by Bertil Lintner. This book was released on 2019-04-24. Burma In Revolt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explains how Burma's booming drug production, insurgency, and counter-insurgency interrelate—and why the country has been unable to shake off thirty years of military rule and build a modern, democratic society.
Brave Men of the Hills
Brave Men of the Hills - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brave Men of the Hills write by Parimal Ghosh. This book was released on 2001-06-01. Brave Men of the Hills available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Burma was conquered by Britain in the course of three wars fought in 1825, 1852 and 1885, and colonial rule was to last until 1948, when Burma regained independence. Throughout this period there were several armed uprisings against foreign rule and its social and economic ramifications. In Brave Men of the Hills Parimal Ghosh explores how peasant militancy was first generated and then crystallised into an open challenge to the colonial state. He focuses on two types of uprisings: the nineteenth-century resistance that followed the three wars of conquest, and Saya San's revolt of 1930-1933. Rather than seeing such Burmeses responses as being the symptom of a colonial "pacification" process, he argues that they were organic expressions of a momentum of resistance originating among a grassroots peasant base.
Outrage
Outrage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Outrage write by Bertil Lintner. This book was released on 1990. Outrage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
