What began in the 1940s as a revolutionary army created to liberate Myanmar from British colonial rule soon turned repressive. The country has been a military dictatorship on and off since 1962.
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Associate Professor, Department of World Cultures and Languages, Northern Illinois University
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Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, Emory University
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Professor of Asian and Military History, SOAS, University of London
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Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University
