Burma is notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control: where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers, the de facto leader of the opposition has been under decade-long house arrest, insurgent-controlled regions are effectively cut off from the world, and rumour is the most reliable source of current information.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2011
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages: 272
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780224096188
ISBN 10: 0224096184