Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of EthnicityBurma 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. |
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Contents
A Historic and Ethnic Background | 27 |
Burmas changing frontiers | 38 |
194248 | 60 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity |
| Author | Martin Smith |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0862328683, 9780862328689 |
| Length | 512 pages |
| Subjects | › Political Science / General |
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