Comments on: Bamboo and Rats and Famine http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/09/13/bamboo-and-rats-and-famine/ New perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:39:39 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rats in the Indo-Burmese borderlands http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/09/13/bamboo-and-rats-and-famine/comment-page-1/#comment-515942 Rats in the Indo-Burmese borderlands Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:27:26 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/09/13/bamboo-and-rats-and-famine/#comment-515942 [...] the years I have sometimes mentioned the social and economic chaos that occurs in parts of mainland Southeast Asia when bamboo [...] [...] the years I have sometimes mentioned the social and economic chaos that occurs in parts of mainland Southeast Asia when bamboo [...]

]]> By: The rats are back in Burma http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/09/13/bamboo-and-rats-and-famine/comment-page-1/#comment-484683 The rats are back in Burma Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:37:37 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/09/13/bamboo-and-rats-and-famine/#comment-484683 [...] years back I posted brief reflections on the sporadic “rat plagues” that have devastating implications for people in northern [...] [...] years back I posted brief reflections on the sporadic “rat plagues” that have devastating implications for people in northern [...]

]]> By: Nicholas Farrelly http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/09/13/bamboo-and-rats-and-famine/comment-page-1/#comment-2343 Nicholas Farrelly Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:18:57 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/09/13/bamboo-and-rats-and-famine/#comment-2343 Thanks Aiontay, I will follow up the Lintner reference. I appreciate the extra information. NSF Thanks Aiontay,

I will follow up the Lintner reference. I appreciate the extra information.

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]]> By: aiontay http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/09/13/bamboo-and-rats-and-famine/comment-page-1/#comment-2328 aiontay Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:59:29 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/09/13/bamboo-and-rats-and-famine/#comment-2328 I don't have any direct experience with these rat population explosions, but Bertil Lintner attributes the end of the CPB's opium crop substitution program to the 1976 outbreak (see pg 266 in "Land of Jade". I think the Kachin State was also affected in 1976. I don’t have any direct experience with these rat population explosions, but Bertil Lintner attributes the end of the CPB’s opium crop substitution program to the 1976 outbreak (see pg 266 in “Land of Jade”. I think the Kachin State was also affected in 1976.

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