Myanmar's enemy within : Buddhist violence and the making of a Muslim 'other'

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    • Wade, Francis
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Myanmar's enemy within : Buddhist violence and the making of a Muslim 'other'

Francis Wade

Zed Books, 2019

2nd ed.

  • : pb

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"Myanmar's enemy within : Buddhist violence and the making of a Muslim 'other' first published in 2017 by Zed Books Ltd."--T.p.verso

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内容説明

In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of refugees since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The warning signs of impending catastrophe that had built over years were downplayed by Western backers of the political transition, and only when the exodus began did the world finally come to acknowledge a catastrophe that had been long in the making. In this updated edition of the book that foreshadowed a genocide, Francis Wade explores how the manipulation of identities by an anxious ruling elite laid the foundations for mass violence. It asks: who gets to define a nation? How can democratic rights be weaponised against a minority? And why, at a time when the majority of citizens in Myanmar had begun to experience freedoms unseen for half a century, did much-lauded civilian leaders like Aung San Suu Kyi become complicit in the most heinous of crimes?

目次

Prologue 1. A Popular Massacre: Rallying to a Lethal Cause 2. The First Wave: Widening the Communal Divide in Western Myanmar 3. Songs of Whose Soil? Britain and the Birth of a Fractured Nation 4. The Art of Belonging: A Peculiar Transaction in Yangon 5. Us and Them: Making Identities, Manipulating Divides 6. Ruling the Unruly: Social Engineering and the Village of Prisoners 7. 2012: The Making of a Catastrophe 8. At First Light the Darkness Fell: Myanmar's Democratic Experiment Falters 9. 'We Came Down from the Sky': The Buddhist Preachers of Hate 10. Apartheid State: Camps, Ghettos and the New Architecture of Control 11. U Maung Soe: An Outcast in Disguise 12. In the Old Cinema Hut: A Delicate Thread is Cut 13. Bystanders: Quiet Diplomacy and a 'Glaringly Dysfunctional' UN 14. Rebirth: After the Killings

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