Sadaik Short Reviews: The Way I See It

A retired Colonel, and purged associate of former Military Intelligence chief Gen Khin Nyunt, U Hla Min goes to great effort to justify the 1990 military coup and the positive development it allegedly bought to the nation in the years after …

The author is clearly not impartial and the narrative shows. Constant rationalisation of human right abuses makes difficult for reading. If nothing else though, it survives as valuable frame to the thought processes needed in morally explaining these abuses away.

The Way I See It

Title: The Way I See it: Myanmar and Its Evolving Global Role

Author: U Hla Min

Publisher: Zin Yadanar Saw Publishing House

Re-published: 2013

(Sadaik Shorts is a series of very short reviews of fiction and non-fiction from Myanmar writers in English)