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Than Shwe
Unmasking Burma's Tyrant
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Artikel-Nr:
9789749511916
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.08.2010
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Benedict Rogers
Gewicht:
261 g
Format:
209x141x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Benedict Rogers is a writer and human rights advocate specializing in Burma whose articles have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, and The Guardian. He is the author of A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma's Karen People.
Than Shwe is one of the world's most brutal dictators, presiding over a military regime that persists in repressing and brutalizing its own people. Until now, his story has not been told. Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant provides the first-ever account of Than Shwe's journey from postal clerk to dictator, analyzing his rise through the ranks of the army, his training in psychological warfare, his belief in astrology, his elimination of rivals, and his ruthless suppression of dissent.
Foreword by Vaclav Havel Acknowledgments; Author's note; Abbreviations From postman to tyrant; The land of green and orange; the democratic challenge; Than Shwe's crimes against humanity; The new emperor; The seat of kings; The monks and the storm; The rivals, the heirs, the cronies and the future Notes; Bibliography; Index