Burma : insurgency and the politics of ethnicity
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Burma : insurgency and the politics of ethnicity
Zed, c1999
Rev. and updated ed
- : pbk.
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Previous ed.: 1991
Includes index
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Description
Burma remains a land in deep crisis. The popular uprising of 1988 swept away 26 years of military rule under General Ne Win in name only. The National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in the 1990 election. But, as this book relates, the military remained in control and the future of Burma looks more problematic than ever.
With unparalleled command of largely inaccessible Burmese sources and interviews with many of the leading participants, Martin Smith charts the rise of modern political parties and unravels the complexities of the long-running insurgencies waged by opposition groups, including the Communist Party of Burma, the Karen National Union and a host of other ethnic nationalist movements. It is essential reading for those interested in the conditions giving rise to guerrilla warfare, the character of national liberation movements, and the impact of ethnicity on political conflict.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Roots of Conflict
1. The Burmese Way to Stagnation and the Crisis of 1988
2. The Peoples of Burma: A Historic and Ethnic Background
3. Order Without Meaning: British Rule and the Rise of the National Liberation Movement
4. War and Independence: 1942-48
5. Insurgency as a Way of Life
Part II Insurrections in the Parliamentary Era
6. The Final Seizure of Power: A Country Goes Underground
7. Failure, Retrenchment and the United Fronts: The Communist Movement 1948-52
8. The Battle for Kawthoolei: The Spread of Ethnic Rebellion
9. Revisionism and the 1955 Line: The Prospect of Peace
10. The Collapse of Parliamentary Democracy: Ne Win Seizes Power
Part III Insurrections in the Ne Win era
11. Military Rule and Peace Parley
12. Cultural Revolution
13. The North-East Command and the Four Cuts
14. The Failure of U Nu's Parliamentary Democracy Party, Keren Unity and Emergence of the National Democratic Front
15. The War in the North, Opium and the 1980/1 Peace Parley
16. The Nationalities Question
Part IV: The 1980s: A Decade of Upheaval
17. The Democracy Upbringing and the CPB
18. The 1989 CPB Mutinies: The End of the road?
19. The War Goes On: The NDF and the KNU
20. A New Cycle of Conflict?: The 1990 General Election and the DAB
Part V Burma at the Century's End
21. The 1990s: Deadlock or the Dawning of New Realities?
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