Dreams of a Rat Hole

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Paranoid generals draw up plans to withdraw from Rangoon and go to ground... "Burmese kings in the distant past had fanciful ideas of relocating their capital. It is perhaps no wonder then that the current military rulers are having similar thoughts, though for less grandiose reasons. Now, according to military analysts in the capital, the generals have a blueprint to move their military headquarters, or war office as it?s called, from Rangoon to Pyinmana, in central Burma?s Mandalay division. But what for—does it make sense?..."

Creator/author: 

Aung Zaw

Source/publisher: 

"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 4

Date of Publication: 

2005-04-00

Date of entry: 

2006-04-27

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English

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