Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-329) and index.
Contents:
Discipline-Flourishing Democracy' -- The Transition -- The War in the 'Green Hell' -- Days of Fury in Arakan -- 'We Will Build a Fence With Our Bones if Necessary' -- Th e Counted and the Excluded -- Th e Burmese Cage -- History and Its Traces -- The Worlds of Precolonial 'Burma' -- Burma Under the British -- The Emergence of Nationalisms -- World War II and the Road to Independence -- An Embattled Democracy -- The Burmese Way to Socialism -- A Long 'Caretaker Government' -- A Diarchic Government -- The Election -- 'The Lady' in Power -- 'An Unfinished Job' -- After the Ethnic Cleansing -- Conclusion: The Failure of Burmese Nationalism.
Summary:
"A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Mayanmar: and the origins of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas In 2011, Burma/Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in decades saw a landslide for the party of celebrated Nobel prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet, even as the international community was celebrating a new dawn, old wars were raging in the northern borderlands and a crisis was emerging in western Arakan State, as the regime intensified its oppression of the vulnerable Muslim Rohingya community. The trigger of the latter was a series of episodes of intercommunal violence between Muslims and Buddhists in 2012, in which the army and police took sides attacking the former. By 2017, the conflict had escalated into a military onslaught against the Rohingya that provoked the most desperate refugee crisis of our times, as over 750,000 of them fled their homes to neighbouring Bangladesh. In The Burmese Labyrinth, journalist Carlos Sardina Galache, gives the in depth story of the country, combining reportage and history. Burma has always been an uneasy balance between multiple ethnic groups and religions. He examines the deep roots behind the ethnic divisions that go back prior to the colonial period, and so shockingly exploded in recent times. This is a powerful portrait of a nation in perpetual conflict with itself."-- Provided by publisher.
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