ISBN:

• 9781846043468
• 1846043468

Description: 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes: From rice bowl to basket case -- Cry freedom -- A campaign of brutality in the east -- A silent cry in the north -- A cross to bear in the west -- A stateless people -- Defectors, deserters and child soldiers -- The torture chambers -- Bloody spots and discarded flip-flops: the saffron revolution -- Cyclone Nargis -- Out of uniform but still in power -- The future?

Control Number: 920311

Subjects:

• Burma -- History -- 1948-
• Burma -- Politics and government -- 1948-
• Burma -- Social conditions -- 21st century.