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Free Burma
How Burma’s pro-democracy movement transcends its borders.
Nonviolent Social Movements
Nonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
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?
The Rohingyas
Brings to light the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya going on in Burma
The Military in Burma/Myanmar
The Myanmar military has dominated that complex country for most of the period since independence in 1948. The fourth coup of 1 February 2021 was the latest by the military to control those aspects of society it deemed essential to its own interests, and its perception of state interests. The military’s institutional power was variously maintained by rule by decree, through political parties it founded and controlled, and through constitutional provisions it wrote that could not be amended without its approval. This fourth coup seems a product of personal demands for power between Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and Aung San Suu Kyi, and the especially humiliating defeat of the military-backed party at the hands of the National League for Democracy in the November 2020 elections. The violent and bloody suppression of widespread demonstrations continues, compromise seems unlikely, and the previous diarchic governance will not return. Myanmar’s political and economic future is endangered and suppression will only result in future outbreaks of political frustration.
The Prevention of Human Rights Violations
1. The UN Special Rapporteurs.
Mission to Burma Report
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.
