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Article: Burma's weak spot _ drugs
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- The Press
- Article date:
- December 12, 1996
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Burma has a repressive government and a poor human rights record.
How then should we regard it? PETER PERRY says the regime's drug
trade might prove its most vulnerable point.
Burma's students are again on the streets and once more the last
thing the regime is willing to do is to listen or to talk.
A n appropriate relationship with Burma (Myanmar, as its rulers
prefer it to be called) raises difficult problems not only for its
Asian neighbours but for everyone. How should we or they react or
interact with a country that is resource-rich, development-poor,
strategically located, and repressively governed?
Until the later 1980s the problem conveniently swept itself under
the carpet. Burma's ...