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Politics, aid, Burma and “solidarity”

April 20th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 6 Comments

I am new to work on Burma, but in my eight weeks of involvement to date I am finding the world of Burma advocacy rigid and doctrinal. There is just one overarching narrative: the struggle of the Burmese democracy movement, led by Nobel Peace Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, against the repressive Burmese generals. [...]

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