Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution - Edith T. Mirante

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Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution, Edith T. Mirante, 1993, Burma (United States), NONFICTION

"...Outraged by the atrocities committed by the Burmese army against so many, Edith Mirante joins the hill tribes' battle for survival...She charges the Burmese government with numerous human rights violations; she indicts the Thai government, which allows the drug trade to thrive in return for money and access to Burma's rain forests; she exposes the United States government's donation of chemicals that eradicate opium poppies but also destroy the vegetation, pollute the rivers, and kill and injure the people..."

(H.S., p. 311)