Few cities are as gloomy as Yangon, the rot-blackened capital of Myanmar, known in better days as Rangoon and Burma respectively. By day, unemployed youths line the streets. By night, in the deserted centre, soldiers stand guard behind barbed-wire blockades. Under the grip of military rule, few people dare talk politics, even in private. Beyond the capital, it is worse: in some parts people must endure slavery, eviction from their villages, destruction of their crops, murder and theft by the army.
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