Word: burma
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...long hair, effeminate features and a beguiling smile that doesn't fade even when he fires off rounds from his assault rifle. Together the legendary 12-year-old Htoo twins control "God's Army," a nominally Christian force of 200 youthful Karen tribesmen in the mountainous rain forest of Burma (now known as Myanmar). The army's tots-to-teens fighters revere their boy leaders as bulletproof messiahs...
Last week the troops came out of the heart of Burma's darkness to engage in a century-against-century collision straight from Apocalypse Now. Ten of the young fighters wrapped their faces in black masks, left their home base on Kersay Doh, or "God's Mountain," commandeered a bus to cross the nearby Thai border and took 500 patients and staff hostage in a hospital in the town of Ratchaburi. Big mistake. They had wanted to protest recent shelling by Thai military units, who were cooperating with the Burmese military junta to roust out hill tribes and make...
...twins forcing their way into a modern medical facility was as bizarre as it was outrageous. But it shone the global spotlight for a moment on one of the century's longest-running insurgencies, where ethnic minorities have been struggling for some form of autonomy from the government of Burma since the country's independence...
...past years, more conservative council candidates have benefited from a backlash against what some saw as a connection between liberal leadership and a divided council that focused more on problems in Burma than those of student shuttle busses to Logan...
However, the most indirect, though by no means benign, gift of the Khan was the plague. Originating in the jungles of southern China and Burma, bubonic plague traveled with Mongol armies and then from caravan to caravan till it reached the Crimea in 1347. From there it would take a third of all Europeans. Bereft of labor and talent, the fledgling nation states were pressed to maximize tax collection, bureaucracy and state control of the force of arms, leading to the heightened competitiveness of the West just as Europe's ships sailed for the riches of a distant empire...