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Myanmar's enemy within : Buddhist violence and the making of a Muslim 'other' / Francis Wade.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: London: Zed books Ltd. 2019.Description: xiv, 280 pages : map ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781786995773
Other title:
  • Buddhist violence and the making of a Muslim 'other'
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 322.109591
Contents:
The first wave: the murder, the smoke and the ruins -- Sons of whose soil? Britain and the birth of a fractured nation -- The art of belonging: a peculiar transaction in Yangon -- Us and them: making identities, manipulating divides -- Ruling the unruly: social engineering and the village of prisoners -- 2012: season of violence -- At first light the darkness fell: Myanmar's democratic experiment falters -- "We came down from the sky": the Buddhist preachers of hate -- Apartheid state: camps, ghettos and the new architecture of control -- U Maung Soe: an outcast in disguise -- In the old cinema hut: fear, hope and the heroes we forget.
Summary: Explores the growing divide between Myanmar's Buddhist and Muslim communities, and questions why some of the most respected and articulate voices for democracy in the country have become complicit in the persecution of its religious minorities.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-280).

The first wave: the murder, the smoke and the ruins -- Sons of whose soil? Britain and the birth of a fractured nation -- The art of belonging: a peculiar transaction in Yangon -- Us and them: making identities, manipulating divides -- Ruling the unruly: social engineering and the village of prisoners -- 2012: season of violence -- At first light the darkness fell: Myanmar's democratic experiment falters -- "We came down from the sky": the Buddhist preachers of hate -- Apartheid state: camps, ghettos and the new architecture of control -- U Maung Soe: an outcast in disguise -- In the old cinema hut: fear, hope and the heroes we forget.

Explores the growing divide between Myanmar's Buddhist and Muslim communities, and questions why some of the most respected and articulate voices for democracy in the country have become complicit in the persecution of its religious minorities.

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