A must-read for aspirant dictators
The following is a review of a so-far notional work, The Dictator's Guide: How to Keep Power and Gain the World's Respect , as it might have been written by Thein Sein, a former general and the present president of Myanmar. The Dictator's Guide: How to Keep Power and Gain the World's Respect recounts Thein Sein's biggest challenge to date in establishing a flourishing, modern, developed democratic Myanmar in which all the official 135 national races live together in peace and harmony. The removal of thousands of Muslim "Bengalis", people whose claims for decades to be ethnic Rohingya citizens of Myanmar are rejected by the government, has proven especially difficult, though not insurmountable, in keeping the international community on-board with his country's supposed liberal transition. Thein Sein shares his personal perspectives on how to overcome this problem and many others in the volume. Most importantly, he details how to succes...