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...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 what Thant Myint-U calls both "the longest-lasting military dictatorship in the world" and "the longest-running armed conflict in the world," a civil war involving a tangle of groups and now in its seventh decade...
...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...
...Thant, such histories are not an abstract or far-off thing. Fully Burmese himself, he is descended from courtiers, and grew up (in Riverdale, New York) in the same house as his maternal grandfather, U Thant, the onetime small-town Burmese headmaster who became the U.N.'s third Secretary-General. The author's first trip to Burma came in 1974 when, just 8 years old, he returned to help bury his grandfather. That visit set off confrontations in the streets between rebellious students calling for a state funeral and the hard-line government eager to downplay the event-eerily prefiguring...
...Annan, who is required to step down after completing his second term in the job at the end of 2006. If Ban wins - a big if, given the unpredictable politics of Secretary-General races - he'd be the first Asian to lead the U.N. since the Burmese diplomat U Thant in the 1960s. And it would be a big win for South Korea, which in many ways is the U.N.'s best success story, fighting off a North Korean invasion and rising from the ashes of war to become one of the world's most vibrant economies, all with significant...
...think this whole idea of a recall is crazy,” said Mamie M. Thant ’04, a Maryland resident...