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A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2019 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020 “An urgent book.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times During a century of colonialism, Burma was plundered for its natural resources and remade as a racial hierarchy. Over decades of dictatorship, it suffered civil war, repression, and deep poverty. Today, Burma faces a mountain of challenges: crony capitalism, exploding inequality, rising ethnonationalism, extreme racial violence, climate change, multibillion dollar criminal networks, and the power of China next door. Thant Myint-U shows how the country’s past shapes its recent and almost unbelievable attempt to create a new democracy in the heart of Asia, and helps to answer the big questions: Can this multicultural country of 55 million succeed? And what does Burma’s story really tell us about the most critical issues of our time?
How Burma’s pro-democracy movement transcends its borders.
Brings to light the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya going on in Burma
1. The UN Special Rapporteurs.
Offers new analysis of the complexities of the conflict and new insights into what is preventing a peaceful resolution to this intractable
Nonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.
ICVA team visited the Burmese refugee camps in Thailand and Burma with one team member on to visit the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh from 24 August to 8 September 1992. Close on 500 children are dying each day from largely preventable causes. The time is right for international NGOs to consider providing humanitarian assistance to the people of Burma.