Than Shwe

Benedict Rogers is a writer and human rights advocate specializing in Burma whose articles have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, and The Guardian. He is the author of A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma's Karen People.

• Foreword by Vaclav Havel Acknowledgments; Author's note; Abbreviations From postman to tyrant; The land of green and orange; the democratic challenge; Than Shwe's crimes against humanity; The new emperor; The seat of kings; The monks and the storm; The rivals, the heirs, the cronies and the future Notes; Bibliography; Index

"The outlines of Than Shwe's life and rise from obscure origins as a rural postal clerk and later as a member of the military's Psychological Warfare Department to a deeply superstitious and reclusive head of state are reported as solidly as possible for such an elusive and undocumented subject by Benedict Rogers…."(The New York Review of Books) "The just published book about Senior General Than Shwe, Union of Myanmar's secretive leader of the military government, is timely and overdue."- Reinhard Hohler (Chiang Mai) ".. a timely account of the awfulness of the regime he heads, whose leaders seem sure to continue to hold real power even after a stage-managed election in November."(The Economist) "Rogers deserves credit for trying to illuminate a secretive life."(Time)