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No Time for Dreams: Living in Burma under Military Rule
No Time for Dreams: Living in Burma under Military Rule By Carolyn Wakeman and San San Tin, Introduction by Emma Larkin has "SPECIAL ONLINE PRE-PUBLICATION DISCOUNT at $29.96 (25% Off).
It is going to be published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. .
Compelling images of cinnamon-robed monks confronting the guns and clubs of Burma's military junta outraged the world in September 2007 and San San Tin Inspired by the legacy of her father Ba Tin's struggle against British colonialism beginning in the 1930s, infuses her journey from school girl to journalist and, briefly, to businesswoman with an unbroken spirit of resistance.
Offering a compassionate insider's view of politics, culture, religion, and family during nearly half a century of unrelenting dictatorship, this riveting personal story traces an arc of decline to reveal the bitter fate of a once-prosperous and cosmopolitan society.
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Information from inside
According to the undisclosed interview with one government official, the death toll is reaching 600,000 so far and 100,000 is still missing. According his figure, 180,000 killed only in the Lutputta township, 90,000 in Phyar Pone Township , 80,000 in Bogalay Township and 50,000 each in KywanGanKone , DayDaYae and MawKyane Township. Authorities (army and its thugs ) are throwing away dead bodies into the nearby river. Even in Ye Way Cemetery in Yangon City, dead bodies are cremated in batches without proper identification. Emphasizing the Phyar Pone Township, authority declared the Emergency Act and deters people not to go out at night but they are dumping dead bodies into the river
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