Bertil Lintner - Powers seek influence in Burma -

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/powers-seek-influence-burmas-conflict

George R.R. Martin on writing conflict and power

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/game-of-thrones-season-3-characters_n_1854918.html#slide=809594

Why labor unions losing power in the USA

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/11/us/union-power-analysis/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

A brief encounter with former Burma spy chief Khin Nyunt - by Aung Zaw, founder, editor of The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/20830 Reminds me of time in 70s when I met Sein Lwin and the then railways minister at 2 different soon kyways. SL impossibly seemed afraid of me! And the other man seemed on the verge of saying something, his lips moved as if he was nervous or preparing to say something - but his wife put her hand on his arm and stopped him. I could not imagine how these powerful people would fear an ordinary university lecturer like me. kmk

A nightmare that could happen anywhere, including Burma - The Rwandan Genocide -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the East African state of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days (from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira on April 6 through mid-July) over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate. Estimates of the death toll have ranged from 500,000–1,000,000, or as much as 20% of the country's total population. It was the culmination of longstanding ethnic competition and tensions between the minority Tutsi, who had controlled power for centuries, and the majority Hutu peoples, who had come to power in the rebellion of 1959–62. . . . Belgian colonialism played a role in maintaining the divide between the Tutsi and Hutu peoples. From Wikipedia article above.