Country Study of Burma

Myanmar's population is steadily increasing. For example, it increased from 28,885,867 in 1973 to 35,306,189 in 1983. In 1989, its population was 40,030,000. In 1990, its population showed an increase of a little over 700,000 from the year before, and in 1990, its population was 41,550,000. The population is almost divided equally between males and females. The density per square kilometer in 1991 was 61.4 for an area of 261,218 square miles. From 1985 to 1990, the birth rate per 1,000 was 30.6 and the death rate was 9.7 (Myanmar, 1993, p. 2017). About three-fifths of the population is employed in agriculture, hunting, forestry, and fishing industries. About 20 percent are employed in tourist, transport and communication, finance and business services, and comm

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to prove their good intentions in denying their citizens human rights and fundamental freedoms. Five years of constructive engagement have given the government the confidence to maintain its repressive rule (Tutu, 1993, p. 23). Buoyed by the willingness of several countries in the region to sell them weapons systems and munitions, content with only a small amount of foreign trade, and endowed with an efficient money-printing press, Burma's military leaders have decided that they can continue to rule without too much regard to outside criticism. They also have a new source of riches through agreements with growers and traffickers of opium and heroin in the country's notorious Golden Triangle (Haseman, 1993, p. 23). However, to silence critics in the United Nations, the Burmese dictators allowed political dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest in her home in Burma for more than four years, to speak to visitors in early 1994. The dissident leader said she was ready to negotiate with her jailers but that she would never leave her homeland. She spoke with a delegation that included Representative Bill Richardson, Democrat--New Mexico (Shenon, 1994a, p. A1). Furthermore, in w
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