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...long, and for far too many, Burma has meant only one thing: isolation. In 1962 General Ne Win closed the doors to the country, going on to nationalize even the Boy Scouts and the Automobile Association of Burma, and turned his land into the most secretive and reclusive place this side of North Korea. And ever since the brutally suppressed popular uprising of 1988, more and more foreigners have tried to isolate the country still further, through the sanctions called for by Burma's main opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi. Meanwhile, the country's 47 million people suffer through...
...historical treatise The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant contends that foreign boycotts against Burma have only intensified the ruling junta's xenophobia and plunged the nation deeper into solitary confinement. His country is not, Thant suggests, an oppressed state waiting to be released, like Cuba or North Korea, so much as a war-wrecked society (like Cambodia or Afghanistan), lacking even the basic facilities and recent history to set up a real democracy. The reasons for that, he tells us, are best understood by examining what he calls, in his subtitle, the "Histories of Burma...
...well as cruising Indonesian waters, Silolona sails to Malaysia and Burma and accepts private charter. Aside from superb diving, itineraries can include trekking, lavish beach barbecues and strolls through nutmeg plantations. Once you've seen Indonesia this way, climbing aboard a dilapidated interisland ferry can barely be contemplated...
...well as cruising Indonesian waters, Silolona sails to Malaysia and Burma and accepts private charter. Aside from superb diving, itineraries can include trekking, lavish beach barbecues and strolls through nutmeg plantations. Once you've seen Indonesia this way, climbing aboard a dilapidated interisland ferry can barely be contemplated...
...ghastly things happened in 2006?the horrors of all-against-all war in Iraq, the rubble of Lebanon, the foiled plot to blow airliners out of the sky over the Atlantic, the slow throttling of civil liberties and freedom of expression in Russia, genocide in Darfur, continuing repression from Burma to Zimbabwe. All seemed grim, and grimly familiar. Was there nothing to lighten the gloom...