Myanmar's Enemy Within

Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'

AvFrancis Wade,Paul French

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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?

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-15
Mått:130 x 196 x 33 mm
Vikt:409 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asian Arguments
Antal sidor:288
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786995773

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Francis Wade is a journalist specialising in Myanmar and Southeast Asia. He began reporting on Myanmar in 2009 with the exiled Democratic Voice of Burma news organisation, based in Northern Thailand, before going on to cover in-depth the transition from military rule and the violence that accompanied it. He has reported from across South and Southeast Asia for The Guardian, TIME, Foreign Policy Magazine, and others. He is now based in London.

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Lucid ... exceptionally timely ... vital to understanding how things could go so disastrously wrong. Wade predicted the miserable fate of Myanmar's hated Muslim minority.

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue1. A Popular Massacre: Rallying to a Lethal Cause2. The First Wave: Widening the Communal Divide in Western Myanmar3. Songs of Whose Soil? Britain and the Birth of a Fractured Nation4. The Art of Belonging: A Peculiar Transaction in Yangon5. Us and Them: Making Identities, Manipulating Divides6. Ruling the Unruly: Social Engineering and the Village of Prisoners7. 2012: The Making of a Catastrophe8. At First Light the Darkness Fell: Myanmar’s Democratic Experiment Falters9. ‘We Came Down from the Sky’: The Buddhist Preachers of Hate10. Apartheid State: Camps, Ghettos and the New Architecture of Control11. U Maung Soe: An Outcast in Disguise12. In the Old Cinema Hut: A Delicate Thread is Cut13. Bystanders: Quiet Diplomacy and a ‘Glaringly Dysfunctional’ UN14. Rebirth: After the Killings