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Myanmar's enemy within : Buddhist violence and the making of a Muslim 'other' / Francis Wade.

by Wade, Francis.

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Zed Books, 2019.

322.109591 W119m

Rohingya (Burmese people)

Ethnic conflict -- Burma.

Burma -- Politics and government -- 1988-

Burma -- History -- 1988-

Burma -- Social conditions -- 1988-

9781786995773 (pbk.)

xi, 419 p. ; 20 cm.

First published in 2017 by Zed Books.

["Francis Wade is an innovator, content author and management consultant. He owns Framework Consulting, a firm headquartered in Hollywood, Florida and spends much of this time in Kingston, Jamaica, a place he's called home since 2005. Francis is a graduate of Cornell University in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, where he earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees. Most of his attention is spent on Time Management 2.0 and turning new productivity research into practical ideas that leaders of companies can use. He has done marathons and several triathlons, including one Ironman-distance race."]

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-419).

"In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of refugees since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The warning signs of impending catastrophe that had built over years were downplayed by Western backers of the political transition, and only when the exodus began did the world finally come to acknowledge a catastrophe that had been long in the making. In this updated edition of the book that foreshadowed a genocide, Francis Wade explores how the manipulation of identities by an anxious ruling elite laid the foundations for mass violence. It asks: who gets to define a nation? How can democratic rights be weaponized against a minority? And why, at a time when the majority of citizens in Myanmar had begun to experience freedoms unseen for half a century, did much-lauded civilian leaders like Aung San Suu Kyi become complicit in the most heinous of crimes?"--Back cover.

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