Cruel and Usual

A portrait of a man who rightly earns the title of ‘tyrant.’

July 14, 2010

THAN SHWE: UNMASKING BURMA’S TYRANT
Author: Benedict Rogers
Published by: Silkworm Books (2010)

THE SEA Games of 2009 in Vientiane, Laos were just weeks away but there was the regime in Myanmar doing its level best to justify a campaign for its exclusion from the festival. Inadvertently, of course, not that the regime would care.

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