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Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma de Shelby Tucker

Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma

Autor Shelby Tucker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 2000
Among Insurgents describes the author's journey into Burma through a border area of China closed to foreigners, through the Shan and Kachin States, and out of Burma via an area of India closed to foreigners. En route, he was detained by Communist insurgents, handed over to Kachin insurgents and arrested by the Indian Army. Among Insurgents also examines the symbiotic relationship between the civil war in Burma and the international drugs trade. The author interviewed growers of opium poppies and leaders on both sides of the narcotics divide, and his report to the US National Security Council may have contributed to Washington’s changed perception of the Burmese Army as the main player in the trade.
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ISBN-13: 9781860645297
ISBN-10: 1860645291
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 148 x 224 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: I. B. Tauris & Company

Notă biografică

Shelby Tucker is an experienced traveler who has addressed the US National Security Council on Burma and lectured on the Kachins and the Civil War in Burma at SOAS (University of London), the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and elsewhere.

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Ten years ago, at the age of 53, Shelby Tucker set out to cross Burma on foot from China to India when land access to Burma was forbidden. Tucker had a rucksack, a diary and some inaccurate maps. He recruited a 6ft 4in Swede, Mats, whom he had met on the train to Beijing.

Near the beginning of their walk through the jungle they encountered a group of naked boys bathing - they realized too late that their Chinese Army uniforms were on the banks. With typical sangfroid, Tucker leapt in to join them, shouting incomprehensible English greetings...

Before long they were in the hands of the Kachin Independence Army and managed to survive many near misses with the Burmese Army. Despite pain and constant danger, Tucker recorded each day the vivid beauty of the country, and the courtesy and hospitality of the Kachins (the most important of Burma's hidden colonies, about whom very little has been written).