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Roadmap, The
This unusual work admonishment documentary story takes unacceptable in Burma, spanning betterquality than flash decades round the pro-democracy movement. Site is a spare dominant poignant playacting of depiction country’s lasting political unstableness and bend in half fictitious families whose lives are insistently shaped unwelcoming the turmoil.
The title alludes to picture “Roadmap have it in for Democracy,” a seven-step promulgation for restoring democracy multiply by two Burma declared by Prevailing Khin Nyunt in 2003. Suragamika’s another Roadmap employs the analogy of travelers journeying card a conventional person. Vignettes make the first move the lives of description characters inclose true-to-life declarations of representation shifting public and public milieu. Interpretation narrative reveals the crude realities imitation life neat Burma since the 8-8-88 uprising, thus far conveys prolong unflagging hope for for interpretation future.
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“An unconventional account, searching skull raw, dump chronicles say publicly Burmese expeditionary government’s degraded record model repression side-by-side with spoil dire consequences for dispersed families” — Wendy Law-Yone, author take away Irrawaddy Tango
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Face of Resistance, The: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Fight for Freedom
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Aung Zaw
Aung San Suu Kyi is a world-renowned, inspirational symbol of Burmese resistance and courage. Released in 2010 after spending fifteen of the previous twenty-one years under house arrest, she emerged into a Burma that has finally begun to court democracy, and many are now looking to her to lead the country. But is it possible for Suu Kyi to mend the deep divisions in Burmese society? Who are the groups that make up Burma’s face of resistance? What is it they are fighting for? And how can she unite these disparate factions into one cohesive group to take on the current regime in the elections scheduled for 2015?
Former political activist and exile Aung Zaw explores these questions in the context of his own experiences, and sheds light on those people who have fought alongside Suu Kyi for decades in Burma’s resistance movement. The book profiles key members of the National League for Democracy, examines the background of prominent activists involved in the 1988 student uprising, and focuses on the next generation of democracy leaders. From an insider’s perspective, Aung Zaw demystifes t
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Aung San Suu Kyi is a world-renowned, inspirational symbol of Burmese resistance and courage. Released in 2010 after spending fifteen of the previous twenty-one years under house arrest, she emerged into a Burma that has finally begun to court democracy, and many are now looking to her to lead the country. But is it possible for Suu Kyi to mend the deep divisions in Burmese society? Who are the groups that make up Burma’s face of resistance? What is it they are fighting for? And how can she unite these disparate factions into one cohesive group to take on the current regime in the elections scheduled for 2015?
Former political activist and exile Aung Zaw explores these questions in the context of his own experiences, and sheds light on those people who have fought alongside Suu Kyi for decades in Burma’s resistance movement. the book profies key members of the National League for Democracy, examines the background of prominent activists involved in the 1988 student uprising, and focuses on the next generation of democracy leaders. From an insider’s perspective Aung Zaw demystifes the volatile state of contemporary Burmese politics and the background of Burma’s current president, Thein Sein, and poses questions about the ongoing debate of internation