The "Other" Karen in Myanmar: Ethnic Minorities and the by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
By Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Most earlier stories have concerned with violent elements of ethnic kinfolk and on ethnic armed organisations, resembling the Karen nationwide Union (KNU) in Burma, the Moro Islamic Liberation entrance (MNLF) within the Philippines, and the LTTE in Sri Lanka. even if, even between those minorities that are locked in armed conflicts, the vast majority of humans have refrained from armed resistance and sought to stay ‘quietly’ past the fight and pursued non-violent ways to advertise their person and collective pursuits within the face of authoritarian, governments.
This research, which sheds gentle at the lives and starting to be political importance of non-armed, non-insurgent contributors of ethnic minorities in Burma, attracts seriously on opinion surveys and open-ended interviews between Karen diaspora (among people who lived no less than two decades in Burma), “quiet Karens” who stay within Burma, KNU officers, body of workers, and infantrymen, and Karen refugees and IDPs who're at the moment dwelling in Thai-Burma border components. those interviews, which coated nearly 2 hundred respondents, were carried out due to the fact that 2002.
It is principally directed towards social scientists, historians, humanitarian staff, coverage makers, and practitioners, and non-specialist usual viewers who're attracted to Southeast Asian/Burmese politics and society, comparative politics, id politics, ethnic clash, social events, clash solution, and political reform.
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