Burma : The Curse Of Independence
Burma : The Curse Of Independence
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The burmese civil war began twelve weeks after britain granted burma independence in 1948 and has continued ever since shelby tucker defines the wars core causes for readers new to the subject or baffled by its complexities and shows how a well disciplined army of a wealthy colony was transformed into a ruthless instrument of an impoverished autocracy tucker draws on his experience as a trial lawyer to appraise afresh the murder of aung san, and argues that the military goverment is the leading player in the countrys flouriching drugs trade media emphasis on the juntas record of human rights abuse, he suggests, tends to obscure a strategic interest in ending the trade shared by all major powers
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Paperback, 6th Edition
ISBN13: 9780143028628
Penguin India, 2001