Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other' by Wade, Francis

Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other' (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786995773)

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Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other' by Wade, Francis

Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'

$17.95
Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other' by Wade, Francis

Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of refugees since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The warning signs of impending catastrophe that had built over years were downplayed by Western backers of the political transition, and only when the exodus began did the world finally come to acknowledge a catastrophe that had been long in the making.

In this updated edition of the book that foreshadowed a genocide, Francis Wade explores how the manipulation of identities by an anxious ruling elite laid the foundations for mass violence. It asks: who gets to define a nation? How can democratic rights be weaponised against a minority? And why, at a time when the majority of citizens in Myanmar had begun to experience freedoms unseen for half a century, did much-lauded civilian leaders like Aung San Suu Kyi become complicit in the most heinous of crimes?

Author: Francis Wade
ISBN-10: 1786995778
ISBN-13: 9781786995773
Publisher: Zed Books
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2019
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.30d
By Francis Wade
By Francis Wade
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Francis Wade is a journalist specialising in Myanmar and Southeast Asia. He began reporting on Myanmar in 2009 with the exiled Democratic Voice of Burma news organisation, based in Northern Thailand, before going on to cover in-depth the transition from military rule and the violence that accompanied it. He has reported from across South and Southeast Asia for The Guardian, TIME, Foreign Policy Magazine, and others. He is now based in London.
Francis Wade is a journalist specialising in Myanmar and Southeast Asia. He began reporting on Myanmar in 2009 with the exiled Democratic Voice of Burma news organisation, based in Northern Thailand, before going on to cover in-depth the transition from military rule and the violence that accompanied it. He has reported from across South and Southeast Asia for The Guardian, TIME, Foreign Policy Magazine, and others. He is now based in London.

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