Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Burma, Narcotics, Democracy, and Human Rights
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Burma In Revolt
Author: Bertil Lintner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042970058X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
This book explains how Burma's booming drug production, insurgency, and counter-insurgency interrelate—and why the country has been unable to shake off thirty years of military rule and build a modern, democratic society.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042970058X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
This book explains how Burma's booming drug production, insurgency, and counter-insurgency interrelate—and why the country has been unable to shake off thirty years of military rule and build a modern, democratic society.
Burma and Transnational Crime
Author: Liana S. Wyler
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437927882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
This report analyzes the primary actors driving transnational crime in Burma, the forms of transnational crime occurring, and current U.S. policy in combating these crimes.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437927882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
This report analyzes the primary actors driving transnational crime in Burma, the forms of transnational crime occurring, and current U.S. policy in combating these crimes.
Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy
Author: Bertil Lintner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786162150159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Gives an account of Burma's pro-democracy movement and Aung San Suu Kyi's prominent leadership role
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786162150159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Gives an account of Burma's pro-democracy movement and Aung San Suu Kyi's prominent leadership role
Burmese Looking Glass
Author: Edith T. Mirante
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
“Burmese Looking Glass is a contribution to the literature of human rights and to the literature of high adventure.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review As captivating as the most thrilling novel, Burmese Looking Glass tells the story of tribal peoples who, though ravaged by malaria and weakened by poverty, are unforgettably brave. Author Edith T. Mirante first crossed illegally from Thailand into Burma in 1983. There she discovered the hidden conflict that has despoiled the country since the close of World War II. She met commandos and refugees and learned firsthand the machinations of Golden Triangle narcotics trafficking. Mirante was the first Westerner to march with the rebels from the fabled Three Pagodas Pass to the Andaman Sea. She taught karate to women soldiers, was ritually tattooed by a Shan sayah “spirit doctor,” lobbied successfully against US government donation of Agent Orange chemicals to the dictatorship, and was deported from Thailand in 1988. “A dramatic but caring book in which Mirante’s blithe tone doesn’t disguise her earnest concern for the worsening conditions faced by the Burmese hill tribes.” —Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
“Burmese Looking Glass is a contribution to the literature of human rights and to the literature of high adventure.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review As captivating as the most thrilling novel, Burmese Looking Glass tells the story of tribal peoples who, though ravaged by malaria and weakened by poverty, are unforgettably brave. Author Edith T. Mirante first crossed illegally from Thailand into Burma in 1983. There she discovered the hidden conflict that has despoiled the country since the close of World War II. She met commandos and refugees and learned firsthand the machinations of Golden Triangle narcotics trafficking. Mirante was the first Westerner to march with the rebels from the fabled Three Pagodas Pass to the Andaman Sea. She taught karate to women soldiers, was ritually tattooed by a Shan sayah “spirit doctor,” lobbied successfully against US government donation of Agent Orange chemicals to the dictatorship, and was deported from Thailand in 1988. “A dramatic but caring book in which Mirante’s blithe tone doesn’t disguise her earnest concern for the worsening conditions faced by the Burmese hill tribes.” —Kirkus Reviews
Burma, Narcotics, Democracy, and Human Rights
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Rebel of Rangoon
Author: Delphine Schrank
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568584857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 An epic, multigenerational story of courage and sacrifice set in a tropical dictatorship, The Rebel of Rangoon captures a gripping moment of possibility in Burma (Myanmar) Once the shining promise of Southeast Asia, Burma in May 2009 ranks among the world's most repressive and impoverished nations. Its ruling military junta seems to be at the height of its powers. But despite decades of constant brutality-and with their leader, the Nobel Peace Prize-laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, languishing under house arrest-a shadowy fellowship of oddballs and misfits, young dreamers and wizened elders, bonded by the urge to say no to the system, refuses to relent. In the byways of Rangoon and through the pathways of Internet cafes, Nway, a maverick daredevil; Nigel, his ally and sometime rival; and Grandpa, the movement's senior strategist who has just emerged from nineteen years in prison, prepare to fight a battle fifty years in the making. When Burma was still sealed to foreign journalists, Delphine Schrank spent four years underground reporting among dissidents as they struggled to free their country. From prison cells and safe houses, The Rebel of Rangoon follows the inner life of Nway and his comrades to describe that journey, revealing in the process how a movement of dissidents came into being, how it almost died, and how it pushed its government to crack apart and begin an irreversible process of political reform. The result is a profoundly human exploration of daring and defiance and the power and meaning of freedom.
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568584857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 An epic, multigenerational story of courage and sacrifice set in a tropical dictatorship, The Rebel of Rangoon captures a gripping moment of possibility in Burma (Myanmar) Once the shining promise of Southeast Asia, Burma in May 2009 ranks among the world's most repressive and impoverished nations. Its ruling military junta seems to be at the height of its powers. But despite decades of constant brutality-and with their leader, the Nobel Peace Prize-laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, languishing under house arrest-a shadowy fellowship of oddballs and misfits, young dreamers and wizened elders, bonded by the urge to say no to the system, refuses to relent. In the byways of Rangoon and through the pathways of Internet cafes, Nway, a maverick daredevil; Nigel, his ally and sometime rival; and Grandpa, the movement's senior strategist who has just emerged from nineteen years in prison, prepare to fight a battle fifty years in the making. When Burma was still sealed to foreign journalists, Delphine Schrank spent four years underground reporting among dissidents as they struggled to free their country. From prison cells and safe houses, The Rebel of Rangoon follows the inner life of Nway and his comrades to describe that journey, revealing in the process how a movement of dissidents came into being, how it almost died, and how it pushed its government to crack apart and begin an irreversible process of political reform. The result is a profoundly human exploration of daring and defiance and the power and meaning of freedom.
Empires of Vice
Author: Diana S. Kim
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691199701
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Shared Turn : Opium and the Rise of Prohibition -- The Different Lives of Southeast Asia's Opium Monopolies -- "Morally Wrecked" in British Burma, 1870s-1890s -- Fiscal Dependency in British Malaya, 1890s-1920s -- Disastrous Abundance in French Indochina, 1920s-1940s -- Colonial Legacies.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691199701
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Shared Turn : Opium and the Rise of Prohibition -- The Different Lives of Southeast Asia's Opium Monopolies -- "Morally Wrecked" in British Burma, 1870s-1890s -- Fiscal Dependency in British Malaya, 1890s-1920s -- Disastrous Abundance in French Indochina, 1920s-1940s -- Colonial Legacies.
Human Rights in a Time of Populism
Author: Gerald L. Neuman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108485499
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108485499
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.
"My Gun was as Tall as Me"
Author: Kevin Heppner
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322791
Category : Child soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Life as a Soldier
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322791
Category : Child soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Life as a Soldier