Peace making in Southeast Asia

In one of the delightful essays she writes for international news circulation, Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi says she often hears the young people among her party supporters talking about something that sounds like "jeans shirt." It turns out, however, that this is not the newest wardrobe rage, but the Burmese rendering of the name of the West's nonviolence guru, Gene Sharp. Of course it is no surprise that the English‐educated Burmese are interested in Western political writers. In SLORC's Myanmar (Burma), however, owning or discussing Sharp's work is dangerous and can easily land one in jail. Aung San Suu Kyi points to several such cases

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