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...MYANMAR (BURMA...
South Africa’s leading opposition party, Leon criticized the country’s ties to Saddam Hussein’s government during the time the Iraqi dictator was in power, the country’s decision to veto a United Nations resolution condemning human-rights violations in Myanmar, and its policy of “silent diplomacy” in regard to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s “assault on civil liberties” in his country. “[South Africa’s] approach to foreign relations is rapidly undermining our international...
...part, promising nothing more than markets and carefully targeted economic assistance, is coldly pursuing its quest for new emporiums to sell its goods and feed its ever-growing need for natural resources without the least concern for human rights considerations. China is selling arms to the military junta in Myanmar, cutting deals with Zimbabwe, and heavily investing in Angolan oil. Most shamefully, it bought 40 percent of the Sudanese oil consortium last year and has become the biggest champion of Sudan, the planet’s current most egregious violator of human rights. Will the emergence of China result...
...Burma, not China or Tan's native northern California. It's also unsettling, provocative and, at the same time, both her funniest and her most serious book. Tan did go to Burma. And Saving Fish is about a group of American tourists who venture to the country, renamed Myanmar by the junta in 1989. While on a day trip into the jungle from their ritzy resort, the Americans are kidnapped by Karen tribesmen who believe that one of the travelers, a 15-year-old California boy, is a mythical figure who will rescue the tribe from persecution by the junta...
...spoiled." Is it in China? Or perhaps Burma, a country she can't seem to get out of her mind? "If there's one thing I wanted to do [in Saving Fish]," she says, "it's to remind people that there is this country, now called Myanmar, where a military regime is causing great suffering. People are being tortured, raped and killed. I could have laid out the problem calmly and directly in a nonfiction book, but that would have been what Americans call 'a bummer.' So I chose fiction. And comedy. Sometimes only the subversiveness of comedy...