Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 Medium 27 May 2009)

27 May 2009)

Serials have opened up divergent adaptations and applications of Islamic values in Indonesian society

He is currently assistant professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin in Madison

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Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 Medium 27 May 2009)In 1948, Burma was a promising young democracy with a bustling free market economy and a standard of living that surpassed nearly all of its other Asian neighbours. Fifty years later, Burma is one of the poorest nations in the world, with a military dictatorship in Rangoon and 50,000 armed rebels from a myriad of ethnic insurgency groups. In this well documented and detailed account, well known Burma journalist Bertil Lintner explains the nexus