Burma has been one of the world’s basket cases for half a century, ever since the military seized control in 1962. They did what bad dictatorships do — brutalise opponents, trash the economy and salt away their foreign accounts.
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Burma has been one of the world’s basket cases for half a century, ever since the military seized control in 1962. They did what bad dictatorships do — brutalise opponents, trash the economy and salt away their foreign accounts.