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Burma's form of government is at the heart of an international controversy. In 1990, The National League of Democracy won the general elections in Burma, but the military junta that has led the country since 1962 refuses to abdicate...
...charge Pinochet in London should Spain's extradition request fail. That's a big headache for Chile's president, Eduardo Frei. "Roughly half the population is pro-Pinochet, with the other half fiercely opposed," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim Padgett. While few deny the brutality of his junta, supporters believe the prosperity and stability Pinochet brought to Chile justified his means. "Divisions over his legacy had softened in recent years as society reconciled itself to a post-Pinochet era in which he was immune from prosecution," says Padgett. "But his arrest has reopened the sharp ideological divisions, making...
This scene and others like it are the product of a new offensive by Burma's military government, which began with a "Visit Myanmar Year" in late 1996. The military junta of Burma--now officially known as Myanmar--hit upon a way to exploit further the country it has controlled since 1962: Western tourism. This government rules despite a popular election in 1990 in which the National League for Democracy, headed by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung Sun Suu Kyi, won 82 percent of the seats in the national assembly...
...travel, the military government hopes visitors will not recall less attractive scenes like that of student demonstrators being mowed down by government soldiers--a relatively unpublicized massacre on a greater scale than the Tiananmen Square protests a year later, but without the latter's visibility. To this end, the junta has enlisted high-powered American public relations and publicity firms...
...dire need of foreign currency, the junta has sold off Burma's timber, oil and gas to multinational corporations, has turned a blind eye to the flourishing opium trade and has gone begging to multinational banks and international donors. The foreign reserves it gains allow the regime to buy weapons and maintain a brutal control exercised in the 1998 massacres of demonstrators and students. The military establishment has maintained its power over much of the country despite rebellion by oppressed ethnic minorities and the democratic election which the military lost...