Living Silence
Subtitle: Burma under Military Rule (Politics in Contemporary Asia)
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: May 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781856499262
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political activism; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Social & cultural anthropology; Politics / Current Events; Government - Comparative; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Myanmar (Burma); Politics and government; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Burma; History & Theory - General; 1962-1988; 1988-
First sentence: The Karen population was scattered across much of lower Burma, and many Karen leaders were dissatisfied with a proposal that would give them control only over the portion of the eastern hills and no political representation in the Irrawaddy delta area.