Description:
Pyinmana move shows how nervous the generals are getting...
"A young Burma Army officer and his platoon were told, on being transferred to Rangoon from an ethnic region in upper Burma: ?We are sending you to the front line.? It happened a few years ago, but what appeared at the time to be a joke still has serious validity today.
This is really how some army leaders now see Rangoon. It is not that Rangoon is about to be attacked by insurgents or terrorists—the threat posed by urban dissidents is what is making the junta paranoid..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol.13, N. 12
Date of Publication:
2005-12-00
Date of entry:
2008-07-23
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Language:
English