Wide-ranging, expertly researched, and full of new accounts of the courage and determination of the Burmese people, this book explains Burma's conflicted history, as well as its contemporary struggle for justice.

Includes maps of: Burma.

From rice bowl to basket case -- Cry freedom -- A campaign of brutality in the east -- A silent cry in the north -- A cross to bear in the west -- A stateless people -- Defectors, deserters and child soldiers -- The torture chambers -- Bloody spots and discarded flip-flops: the saffron revolution -- Cyclone Nargis -- Out of uniform but still in power -- The future?