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For decades Burma has been an impoverished autarchy, ruled by the army.(The Week)(Brief article)
For decades Burma has been an impoverished autarchy, ruled by the army. If you were not a dissident, like Nobelist Aung San Suu Kyi, or a member of a rebellious ethnic minority, you could live a life of miserable stasis--so long as nothing bad happened. The cyclone that hit the Irrawaddy Delta in early May was very bad indeed: Perhaps 30,000 people died in the initial havoc. But many more have died, and ...
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