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Myanmar Near the Tipping Point?

Myanmar Near the Tipping Point?

Alice Poon
Sep 25, 2007
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Perhaps it’s no surprise that in the face of long-time political oppression and abject poverty, the Burmese people’s deep-seated anger has finally erupted in the form of street protests led by the monks. Everything happens for a reason. In Myanmar (current name for Burma), decades of gross social and economic inequalities under the rule of a repressive …

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