Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 Medium 27 May 2009)

27 May 2009)

He has executed several temple murals

Paul Chambers is Research Director at the South East Asian Institute of Global Studies at Payap University

and a Council Member of the Pali Text Society (London)

This thoughtful study offers new perspectives and challenges the classical definition of boundaries and borders as spaces that enforce separation and distance

Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 Medium 27 May 2009)In 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