Prologue 1. The First Wave: The Murder, the Smoke and the Ruins 2. Sons of Whose Soil? Britain and the Birth of a Fractured Nation 3. The Art of Belonging: A Peculiar Transaction in Yangon 4. Us and Them: Making Identities, Manipulating Divides 5. Ruling the Unruly: Social Engineering and the Village of Prisoners 6. 2012: Season of Violence 7. At First Light the Darkness Fell: Myanmar’s Democratic Experiment Falters 8. ‘We Came Down from the Sky’: The Buddhist Preachers of Hate 9. Apartheid State: Camps, Ghettos, and the New Architecture of Control 10. U Maung Soe: An Outcast in Disguise 11. In the Old Cinema Hut: Fear, Hope and the Heroes We Forget
As the darkness of military rule recedes, deep and violent fissures have opened between Myanmar's religious communities.
Francis Wade is a journalist specialising in Myanmar and Southeast Asia. He began reporting on Myanmar in 2009 with the exiled Democratic Voice of Burma news organisation, based in Northern Thailand, before going on to cover in-depth the transition from military rule and the violence that accompanied it. He has reported from across South and Southeast Asia for The Guardian, TIME, Foreign Policy Magazine, and others. He is now based in London.
A sober account of ethnic mistrust and communal violence in
Myanmar.'
*Australian Foreign Affairs*
The strength of Myanmar’s enemy within lies in Wade’s attempt to
understand and explain the complex ways in which discrimination has
been perpetuated and entrenched, by looking at the human
experience—on all sides—of this ongoing situation … excellent
starting-points for those wanting to understand more about the
situation of the Rohingya in Myanmar.'
*International Affairs*
A lucid and admirable attempt to come to terms with a deeply
complicated country.
*TLS*
Lucid ... exceptionally timely ... vital to understanding how
things could go so disastrously wrong. Wade predicted the miserable
fate of Myanmar's hated Muslim minority.
*Economist*
This is a deeply insightful work on the dynamics of ethnic
violence.
*Foreign Affairs*
As Francis Wade's excellent new book shows, this disaster was
easily predictable and, with a bit of forethought, could have
easily been prevented.
*Literary Review*
Dotted with anecdotal recollections, the book brilliantly captures
how individual lives are shaped, reshaped and irrevocably damaged
due to a real or acquired membership within a certain group ... an
important work informing debates in these troubled times.
*Tea Circle*
Bold and brave ... Wade's book tells the personal stories of Muslim
and Buddhist characters who have animated the tragic scenes of
Myanmar's deadly morality play.
*TIME Magazine*
Francis Wade has invested immense energy in pursuit of the truth
about the tragedy of Myanmar and its Muslim population. There is no
other writer on this topic with the same moral courage and
intellectual insight. His work demands serious attention.
*Fergal Keane, BBC Correspondent and author of Road of Bones: The
Epic Siege of Kohima*
Essential for all who wish to understand the ethnic cleansing that
today threatens Myanmar’s Rohingya population and, with it,
Myanmar’s tenuous path to democracy. Historically deep, balanced,
large-spirited, and adorned with vivid and enlightening
vignettes.
*James C. Scott, Yale University, author of The Art of Not Being
Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.*
Elegantly written, empirically rich, and analytically nuanced, the
book combines in-depth, on-the-ground reportage with a solid
command of the scholarship. An excellent book.
*John T. Sidel, LSE, and author of Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious
Violence in Indonesia*
[Wade's] razor-sharp attention to narrative ... succeeds, with
remarkable nuance and precision, at bringing the country's
intricate history into the present.
*Los Angeles Review of Books*
A fine, engrossing work, at the centre of which is that all too
common enmity and conflict between people of different religious
and ethnic adherences.
*Paul Brass, author of The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in
Contemporary India*
This gripping investigation into the plight of Myanmar’s Muslim
community reads like a forensic case history, uncovering the full
extent of a nation's festering wound. Lucid, compassionate,
admirably researched and reasoned, here is scholarly reportage at
its best.
*Wendy Law-Yone, author of Golden Parasol: A Daughter's Memoir Of
Burma*
A book of impressive historical depth and intellectual acuity.
Francis Wade shatters many clichés about religious violence as he
explores its tangled roots in Buddhist Myanmar.
*Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present*
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