Download e-book for iPad: Burma: Curse of Independence by Shelby Tucker

By Shelby Tucker

ISBN-10: 0143028626

ISBN-13: 9780143028628

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ISBN-13: 9780745315416

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ISBN-13: 9780745315461

The Burmese Civil conflict begun 12 weeks after Britain granted Burma independence in 1948 and has persevered ever seeing that. This publication defines its center motives for readers who're new to the topic or baffled via its complexities. It exhibits how Burmese "Herrenvolk" pretensions, the cou try's unresolved ethnic divisions, eastern conquest exacerbating those divisions, political contention between Burmese nationalists avoided an orderly move of energy. Aung San's assassination, the medication alternate, and the private greed of Burma's army rulers have reworked the well-disciplined military of a prosperous colony right into a ruthless device of an impoverished autocracy. Tucker attracts on his adventure as an ordeal legal professional to argue that Ne Win, and never the Burmese baby-kisser hanged for the crime, murdered Aung San, and that the junta is the best participant within the country's flourishing medications alternate. Media emphasis at the junta's list of human rights abuse, he indicates, has a tendency to imprecise a strategic curiosity in finishing the exchange shared via all significant powers. He surveys a number of students' tests of the possibility of the peaceable devolution of strength to civilian rule and concludes by means of presenting measures for supporting switch in Burma. Shelby Tucker's epic jungle trek with Burmese rebels defined in his book," between Insurgents: jogging via Burma", confident him that Burma's problems, notwithstanding advanced, usually are not intractable

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Quoted in Woodman, 1962: 397. Enriquez, 1933: xiii, 52. 76 Crosthwaite, 1912: 287. Woodman (1962: 380) adds that they were ‘grouped tribally under chiefs’, but it is clear from Crosthwaite’s and her accounts of the pacification campaigns that such groupings were temporary and involved no more than a few villages. 77 Crosthwaite, 1912: 287. 78 Ibid. 79 Woodman, 1962: 384–5, 392. 80 Carey and Tuck, 1983. Reproduced in Woodman, 1962: 397. 75 Geography and Ethnicity 23 the system of indirect rule that the British applied to all their ‘frontier peoples’—but, again, only by respecting their subjects’ traditions, customs and local leaders did the British eventually gain willing acquiescence to their overlordship.

The truth is rather more complex and much more interesting. The empire differed from time to time and from place to place. 1 Although they operated under a charter from the Crown, this was a formality of the licensing provisions of the Companies Acts. It is probably fair to say that the merchants themselves simply aspired to a more interesting life in a sunnier place offering a possibility of greater material reward for themselves. But their success, not unnaturally, excited the ambition of local rivals.

Dr Maung Maung, 1969: 9. British vs. Japanese Line-up 35 In 1930, an ex-monk pronounced himself a thupannaka galuna raja (illustrious mythical bird king) and began inciting rebellion with claims of magical powers. Maurice Collis describes the spell he cast over his followers: By tattooed charms, pills, oils, needles buried under the skin, he made men invulnerable, invisible, their bodies would rise and fly through the air, they could cause a hostile army to drop its weapons by merely sounding their enchanted gongs, and if they pointed their fingers at an aeroplane it would crash on the spot.

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