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

Wade, Francis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1786995778 ISBN 13 : 9781786995773

Editeur : Zed Books, 2019

Synopsis

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?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Francis Wade is a freelance journalist and analyst specialising in Burma and Southeast Asia. His work has been published in The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Asia Times Online, Foreign Policy, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He previously worked as an editor and reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma, an exiled Burmese news organization based in Thailand.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786995778
• ISBN 13: 9781786995773
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; contact@bloomsbury.com; ; 50 Bedford Square; London; England; WC1B 3DP; Allemagne