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Regime unchanged: how Burma's ruling junta has endured.(Finding George Orwell in Burma )(Book review)

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From: Washington Monthly
Date: 20061201
Author:Kurlantzick, Joshua

Finding George Orwell In Burma By Emma Larkin $15, Penguin

The Southeast Asian nation of Burma--also known as Myanmar--lies in the heart of the world's most dynamic region, in which 500 million people have been lifted out of poverty in recent decades, add one dictatorship after another has fallen. Thanks in part to the Buddhist commitment to education, over 80 percent of the Burmese people are literate. And in recent years a charismatic advocate for Burmese democracy has attained widespread popular support.

And yet, here are the sorry facts about Burma, a country I have ...

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