Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 Medium Ambassador to England and later

Ambassador to England and later Ambassador to West Germany and to Finland

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and nationalism in colonized regions

27 May 2009)

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Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 Medium Ambassador to England and laterIn 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