Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 Medium with its political

with its political

and nationalism in colonized regions

Benedict Rogers is a writer and human rights advocate specializing in Burma

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

27 May 2009)

Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 Medium with its politicalIn 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