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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Re-posting after one year - Potemkin Politics: Are Burmese reforms real by Kyi May Kaung
http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/4842-potemkin-politics.html
I am happy to have the last word, though sad that I am right about Burma yet again./
In the end, I get to say "I told you so," but the Burmese people suffer more under the regime, which is still the same old, same old military./
Where is the so-called reform. Nowhere./
K.M. Kaung
Irrawaddy editorial--Time for the West to balance Chinese influence in Burma/Myanmar.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/editorial/time-for-the-west-to-counterbalance-chinas-influence-in-myanmar.html
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