Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence And The Making Of A Muslim ‘Other’

In his new book, Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other”, Francis Wade explores how the manipulation of identities by an anxious ruling elite has laid the foundations for mass violence, and how, in Myanmar’s case, some of the most respected and articulate voices for democracy have turned on the Muslim population at a time when the majority of citizens are beginning to experience freedoms unseen for half a century.