It's a salutary exercise to devise a list of nations in the news, when that news isn't at all good news. And it's especially disturbing when the nations in the list lie in close proximity to one's own location.
Coverage of events in Myanmar does not make for happy reading. To be honest, it rarely has over the last few years, despite the signs of some kind of open democracy beginning to develop. Indeed, it's the disappointment over the crushing of such signs that adds to the pain of reading.
But perhaps some kind of hope lies in the courage and resilience of so many of the 'ordinary people' there - who turn out, as so often is the case, not to be so ordinary after all.
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