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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
reform,
136ff
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
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 Win Aung,
31
associational ties,
221
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 National Convention,
6
and NGOs,
212
dominance over opposition,
xxiv
meeting with NLD Central Executive Committee,
10
political future of,
23
possible cooperation with army,
5
Aung Shwe,
xxxiii n. 4
,
11
AusAID,
see
Australian Agency for International Development
Australia, and Doha system,
119
human development index,
106
Land Care movement,
119
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID),
139
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR),
xxxii
,
111
,
145
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
bank lending to private sector,
82
Bao You-Xiang,
71 n. 27
“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
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
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
