Myanmar's Long Road to National Reconciliation (56 page)

AAPP,
see
Association for Assisting Political Prisoners

accountability,
209

ACIAR,
see
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

Ackerman, Alice,
220

ADB,
see
Asian Development Bank

administrative reforms, and military regime,
289

ADP,
see
Area Development Program

AED,
see
Agricultural Extension Division

AFPFL,
see
Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League

African National Congress (ANC),
222

agricultural development,
107
,
121
,
122

constraints on,
131ff

lack of rural credit,
145

agricultural education,
100–01
,
109–10

agricultural extension,
102
,
112ff

Agricultural Extension Division (AED),
112

Agricultural Research Department (ARD),
111

Agriculture and National Resource Management Project,
133

Agriculture Mechanization Department (AMD),
101

agriculture,
xxxi
,
98
,
128
,
129

contribution to GDP,
107
,
127–28

reform,
136ff

research,
101–02
,
110ff

agro-industry,
99–100

aid, international,
xxviii
,
103
,
106
,
113
,
122
,
274
,
278
,
289

and Australia
119

and capacity-building,
286

and ethnic groups,
39

failure of,
55

for agriculture,
133
.
See also
humanitarian aid

Alagappa, M.,
160

Ali Alatas,
34

All Burma Student Democratic Front,
232
,
246
,
253 n. 1

AMD,
see
Agriculture Mechanization Department

Amnesty International,
241

amnesty, in 1980,
45

ANC,
see
African National Congress

Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League (AFPFL),
155
,
234

centralization of control,
166

conflicts within,
235

Antonia Maria Costa,
56

aquaculture,
129

ARD,
see
Agricultural Research Department

Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung,
xxxii

Area Development Program (ADP) (World Vision),
201

armed forces, power struggle within,
34

Army,
14
,
17
,
18
,
32
,
33
,
34

ASEAN Meeting on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication,
114

ASEAN,
see
Association of South East Asian Nations

Asia Wealth Bank,
93 n. 12

Asia-Europe summit (Hanoi),
21

Asian Development Bank (ADB),
21
,
78
,
79
,
134
,
265

Asian Dialogue Society, 2003 report,
40

Asian financial crisis,
271

Assessing Aid: What Works, What doesn’t, and Why,
265

Association for Assisting Political Prisoners (AAPP),
243

Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN),
xxvii
,
19
,
39
,
251

Foreign Ministers meeting (Jakarta, July 2004),
32

Myanmar’s chairmanship of,
21–22

and Myanmar government,
21
,
22
,
37

and Win Aung,
31

associational ties,
221

Aung Kham Hti,
58
,
61

Aung San Suu Kyi,
xxxii
,
12
,
151
,
159
,
160
,
251

and Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue,
162

and development assistance,
196

and independence movement,
233

and Khin Nyunt,
29
,
31

and National Convention,
6

and NGOs,
212

and SPDC,
xxxi
and Than Shwe,
29–30
,
31

attack at Depayin,
xx
,
30

detentions of,
xxiii
,
11
,
236

dominance over opposition,
xxiv
meeting with NLD Central Executive Committee,
10

political future of,
23

possible cooperation with army,
5

Western support for,
278
,
279

Aung San,
12
,
166
,
233
,
234
,
236

Aung Shwe,
xxxiii n. 4
,
11

AusAID,
see
Australian Agency for International Development

Australia, and Doha system,
119

human development index,
106

and international aid,
118
,
119
,
123
,
137ff
,
203
,
204

as refugee destination,
239
,
241

Land Care movement,
119

Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID),
139

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR),
xxxii
,
111
,
145

rodent control project,
112
,
137–40

Newcastle disease control project,
140–44

authoritarian power structures, in Burma/Myanmar,
159
,
194–95

authority, and civil society,
151

Ayeyarwaddy (Irrawaddy) River,
107
,
127

Ayeyarwaddy Division, and agricultural extension projects,
112

Ba Swe,
235

Bangladesh,
60
,
236

bank lending to private sector,
82

Bao You-Xiang,
71 n. 27

Batten, Graeme,
xxxii
,
123

“battlefields to marketplace” philosophy,
52

Bay of Bengal Programme,
133

BCN,
see
Burma Centre Netherlands

black market,
44

Bo Mya, General,
7

Border Areas Development Programme,
55

boycott campaigns,
245
.
See also
sanctions

Bradford, W.,
79

bridges,
115

British American Tobacco,
xxv

British Broadcasting Corporation,
241
,
242
,
253

BSI,
see
Bureau of Special Investigation

BSPP,
see
Burma Socialist Programme Party

Buddhist Sangha,
see
Sangha

budget deficits,
85
,
87

Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies,
224

Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI),
16

Burma Agricultural College and Research Institute,
109

Burma Centre Netherlands (BCN),
192

Burma Communist Party,
see
Communist Party of Burma

Burma Independence Army,
236

“Burma Law”, in Massachusetts,
245

Burma/Myanmar,
see
Myanmar

BurmaNet,
242
,
243

Burmese government in exile,
249

“Burmese Way to Socialism”,
43
,
267

Burnet Institute,
see
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health

banking crisis 2003,
xxxi
,
81ff
,
252

and property rights,
88–89

press coverage of,
94 n. 14

Bangkok meeting (December 2003),
6

border areas, government control of,
9
,
39
,
51
,
60
,
67

black market,
44

Internet connectivity,
243

as strategic regions,
39–40

production of narcotics,
53

Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP),
4
,
17
,
40
,
43
,
154
,
156
,
265