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This map shows Burma and its 40 million people wedged between the billion+ populations of India and China, with Malaya to its south. Wars in the 18th and 19th centuries before British annexation, when ruled by Burmese Kings, were waged with the neighbouring Kingdom of Thailand (then known to the world as Siam). Wars with pre-colonial India and Imperial China were minimised by mountain ranges and poor access.

Once a British colony, then invaded and occupied for over three years - 1942 to 1945 - by the Japanese before finally gaining ita independence in 1948 , Burma has endured a civil war for half a century and suffered under a brutal military dictatorship, SLORC, for over 32 years. Daughter of National hero, Bogyoke Aung San, and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Party - the National League for Democracy (NLD) -  won an overwhelming majority in elections in 1990. She was then denied her democratic right to lead her country by the ruling Junta. Their reason for so doing was her marriage to an Englishman, which, in their view made her untrustworthy and therefore ineligible for leadership. Refusing to leave Burma, she has been isolated from her family and her people and kept under virtual arrest in her Rangoon home. 

The irony of Daw Suu Kyi's predicament is that the veto applied to her now is the exact reverse of that applied by the British in pre-war colonial Burma. British colonies around the globe had spawned generations of European settlers who were born had married and died there, living a life of luxury enjoyed only the rich in their distant homeland. A cardinal rule of Empire was that Europeans should not fraternise with the native peoples, but live socially segregated from them in Cantonments and Clubs. This was deemed vital to maintain the subtle atmosphere of superiority needed to govern and live in peace with millions of indigenous peoples with a minimum of effort and cost. Those who broke this rule had no chance of promotion to a good job and were banished from the inward-looking society of sahibs and memsahibs. 

This sterile rule was especially important for settlers, who called themselves, defensively, "Domiciled Europeans", although to them, Britain was virtually a foreign country. Born over seventy years ago in Burma of third-generation parents, I saw this racial veto operate at first hand. It was particularly galling to see it applied in reverse to Suu Kyi and inspired me to write my story of "Burma Ruby". The first two volumes of her story have been published to date, exposing the undercurrents of tension within settler families in a beautiful sub-tropical colony, whose comfortable existence was threatened, then fatally destroyed by the Japanese invasion in December 1941. 

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Read the latest news on developments in that beautiful but demoralized, poverty- stricken land. 

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