The Lady and the Peacock (81 page)

Pindaya cave pagoda
110

Puppy (Suu Kyi's dog)
222

Pyitthu Hluttaw
(national assembly)
265
,
271
,
274
,
280

“Quit India Movement”
10

Raine, Craig
200

Rangoon
3
,
4
,
10
,
25
,
27
,
38
,
104
,
131

25 Tower Lane
149
,
163
–4,
169
,
171
,
186
,
195

54 University Avenue
5
,
34
,
41
,
49
,
53
,
72
,
74
,
83
,
84
,
97
,
98
,
114
,
154
,
171
,
223
,
246
–7,
306
,
308
–10,
325
,
380
,
381
,
382

Albright visit (1995)
307
–8

ballot-rigging (2010) xv

clean-up campaign (1990)
263

climate of fear (1996)
325

decline and fall
173
–4,
178

Delhi compared
186
–7

Fascist Resistance Day demonstrations (March 1989)
146

fuel price protests (2007)
375

Gandhi Hall
273

Internet cafes
367

Japanese bombing raid (1941)
11

liberated by Allies (1945)
6
,
8
,
13
,
162
,
163

Martyr's Memorial
40

monks' strike (1990)
283

mood during election campaign (2010) xiii–xiv

nationalist agitation
8
–9

new hotels and airport buildings (1995)
337
,
338
,
339

Peace Walk (2007)
375
–6

atrocities
378
–9

pre-coup
175
,
176

price rise protests (2007)
374

seized by British (1824)
7

Secretariat Building
14

Thingyan Festival competition (1989)
133
–5

uprisings and aftermath (1988)
5
,
44
,
45
,
50
,
71
–7,
100

see also
Mingaladon Airport; Shwedagon pagoda

Rangoon City Hall
247

bombing (1989)
154

Rangoon General Hospital
11
–12,
15
,
27
,
30
,
34
,
51
,
67
,
75
,
250
,
326

Rangoon Institute of Medicine
32
,
33

Rangoon Institute of Technology
29

Rangoon monastic university
373

Rangoon University
6
,
9
,
30
,
32
,
39
,
72
,
83
,
90
,
149
,
237

Students Union destruction (1962)
152
–3,
154

U Thant riots (1974)
227
–9

Rausing family
331

Reuters
155

“Revolution of 1300” (1938)
9
–10,
15
,
43

Revolutionary Council
202
,
226

Rewata Dhamma, U
186
,
305

Richardson, Hugh
209
,
223
,
236

River of Lost Footsteps
(Thant Myint-U)
4

Rough Guides
324

Roy, Rammohun
17

Ruskin, John
194

Saffron Revolution (2007)
257
–8,
283
,
374
,
375
–80,
383

Sagaing division
94
,
139
–40,
353

sammavaca
(right speech)
296

Sanda Win
129

sangha
(community of monks)
7
,
8
,
88

8/8/88 anniversary demonstrations (1990)
282
–4

deprived of state patronage
346

loss of royal patrons
294

military regime's legitimacy tied to
346

moral force
373

Peace Walk (Saffron Revolution, 2007)
257
–8,
283
,
374
,
375
–80,
383

relationship to monarchy
285
–6

support for Suu Kyi and NLD
108
,
147
,
281
–2

widening gap with junta
281

Saw Maung, General

condolence visit to Suu Kyi
98
,
130

effects of Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize
299

failing mental health
286
–7

forcible retirement
287
,
299

multiparty elections promise
79
,
80
,
84
,
92
,
100
,
104
,
145
,
147
,
270
,
285

nervous breakdown
102
,
287
,
299
,
301

replaces Maung Maung as president
79

Saw Tha Din
278

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University
27
,
223
,
230
,
231
,
237
–8

Scott, George (Shway Yoe)
85
,
88
,
89
,
278

Second World War
8
,
10
,
12
,
37
,
130
,
176
,
326
,
391

Sein Lwin (the “Butcher”)
29
,
36
,
37
,
43
,
45
,
46

Sein Win, Dr.
275
,
280

Sejersted, Francis
299
–300

Shan Nationalities League for Democracy
268

Shan States and people
14
,
60
,
101
,
104
–10,
177
,
249
,
277
,
351
,
365
,
372

Sharp, Gene
390
–1,
392
,
393
,
394
,
398

Shimla
26
,
90
,
238
,
258

shinbyu
(coming-of-age ceremony)
25
,
237
,
292

Shwedagon pagoda
15
,
37
,
44
,
45
,
53
,
54
,
98
,
163
,
173
,
378

importance
52

restoration
346
–7

Simpson, John
289
,
381

Singapore
263

Skidmore, Monique
325

Slim, William
13
,
161
–2,
163

Smith, Martin
277
,
278

socialism
9
,
18
,
78
–9,
187

Soe Tin, U
215

Soe Tint, U
154

Soe Win
32

Sonny Swe
340
,
365

Soon Kyway
156

South Africa
298

Southeast Asia
11
,
24
,
130

South Korea
263

Soviet Union
29
,
75
,
212
,
225
,
299

Sri Lanka
38
,
217

St. Anthony's College, Oxford
23

St. Hugh's College, Oxford
18
,
25
,
185
,
189
,
190
–200,
298

State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
see
military regime

State Peace and Development Council (SPDC)
see
military regime

Steinberg, David
91
,
310
–11

Storey, David
155

Supayalat, Queen
7
,
98

Suu Kyi
see
Aung San Suu Kyi

Suzuki, Keiji
10
,
12

Syriam oil refinery bombings
154

System of Correlation of Man and his Environment
202
–3

Tagore, Rabindranath
90
,
181
,
187
,
188

“Walk Alone”
291
–2

Taliban
18

Tass (Soviet news agency)
75

Tatmadaw
see
Burmese Army

Taunggyi
108

Taylor, Robert
257

Tenasserim
11
,
101

Thailand
11
,
47
,
163
,
263
,
273
,
276
,
337
,
351
,
372
,
374
,
383

tourism
317
,
323

Thakin Tin Mya
50
,
51

Thakins
9
,
10

Thamanya
311
–14,
351

Than É, Dora
198
–9,
203
,
210
–11,
214
,
215
,
216
,
218

Than Han, Lieutenant Colonel
353

Than Shwe
39
,
301
–4,
306

assassination plot on Suu Kyi
349
,
359
,
361

assassination plot failure
361
–2,
364

brings down Khin Nyunt
365

concocts constitutional scheme
371
–2,
378
,
383

creates USDA
303
,
324
,
350

engineers rigged general election
368

grants permission for Suu Kyi's family to visit
304

“leniency” over Suu Kyi's detention extension
384

meets with Suu Kyi
305
,
363

refuses Michael visa
332

rejects negotiated agreement
364
,
366

removes fuel subsidy
375

rises to chairmanship of SLORC
301
,
302
,
310

suppresses monk's Peace March
379

Than Tun (Communist Party leader)
86
,
95
,
177
,
201
–2

Than Tun, Brigadier General

imprisonment
365

liases with Suu Kyi
345
,
361
,
364
,
365

Thant Myint-U
3
,
213
,
214
,
225
,
227
,
228
–9,
390

Tharana Gon sutra
100
–1

thathanabaing
(senior monk)
8

Thaung Htun
279

Thein Swe, Brigadier
340
,
365

Theravada Buddhism
52
,
87
,
195
,
217
,
373

Thibaw, King
7
,
8
,
89

Thich Nhat Hanh
388

Thingyan (water festival)
31
,
121

slogan competition
132
–5

“Thirty Comrades”
10
,
166
,
229
,
286

Tibet
23
,
89
,
207
,
208
,
209
,
221
,
385

Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Center, Oxford
331

Tibetan Buddhism
217

Time
magazine
386

Times, The
xv,
325
,
396

Tin Aung Hein, U
51
,
57

Tin Maung Win, U
393

Tin Oo, U
66
–8,
68
–9,
70
,
74
,
96
,
134
,
250
,
308
,
352

arrest and imprisonment
245
,
261

Clements' visit
317

and creation of NLD
84
–5

Depayin attack
357

first meeting with Suu Kyi
67
–8

meditation practice
295

Tin Pe (“Red Brigadier')
202
,
203
,
226

Tin Tin
168
,
172
,
174
,
176
,
189
,
200
–1,
208

Tin Tun Oo, Dr.
366

Tinker, Hugh
205

Tokyo
10
,
11
,
12
,
38
,
239
,
326

Trager, Frank
210
,
211

Trickett, Rachel
298

Tutu, Desmond
297

U Nu
40
,
49
,
147
,
157
,
166
,
169
,
172
,
176
–7,
178
,
213
,
264

attacks Khrushchev
225

denounces Ne Win at UN
225
–6

house arrest
262

legitimacy through association with Aung San
284