This report written by longtime Burma watcher Bertil Lintner, describes the repression Burma's monks experienced after they led demonstrations against the government in September 2007. The report tells the stories of individual monks who were arrested, beaten and detained. Two y…
This report written by longtime Burma watcher Bertil Lintner, describes the repression Burma's monks experienced after they led demonstrations against the government in September 2007. The report tells the stories of individual monks who were arrested, beaten and detained. Two y…
Looking North, looking South: China, Taiwan, and the South Pacific
by Lintner, Bertil, Yang, Jian, Henderson, John, Brady, Anne-Marie, Saunders, Phillip C., Hanson, Fergus, Crocombe, Ronald G., To, James Jiann Hua, Lin, Cheng-Yi, Shie, Tamara Renee, Atkinson, Joel
fromSeries on contemporary China
A well-documented and extremely engaging account of the Burmese Communist Party that details the development of the Party and the events and forces that led to the 1989 Mutiny and subsequent fall of the CPB. This study explores the ethnic tensions that influenced the attitudes o…
The United Wa State Army (UWSA) is a non-state armed group that administers an autonomous zone in the difficult to reach Wa Hills of northeastern Myanmar. The UWSA was formed in 1989 after the hilltribe rank-and-file of the insurgent Communist Party of Burma (CPB) expelled its m…
