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Title: The Burmese Labyrinth
Condition: New
Author: Carlos Sardiña Galache
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1788733215
EAN: 9781788733212
ISBN: 9781788733212
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: History
Release Date: 10/03/2020
Description: In 2011, Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in decades saw a landslide for the party of celebrated Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet, even as the international community was celebrating a new dawn, old wars were raging in the northern borderlands. A crisis was emerging in western Arakan state where the regime intensified its oppression of the vulnerable Muslim Rohingya community. By 2017, the conflict had escalated into a military onslaught against the Rohingya that provoked the most desperate refugee crisis of our times, as over 750,000 of them fled their homes to neighbouring Bangladesh.

In The Burmese Labyrinth, journalist Carlos Sardiña Galache gives the in depth story of the country. Burma has always been an uneasy balance between multiple ethnic groups and religions. He examines the deep roots behind the ethnic divisions that go back prior to the colonial period, and so shockingly exploded in recent times. This is a powerful portrait of a nation in perpetual conflict with itself.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 153mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 402g
Release Year: 2020

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