"Naypyitaw, then, is the ultimate insurance against regime change, a masterpiece of urban planning designed to defeat any putative ‘colour revolution’ – not by tanks and water cannons, but by geometry and cartography. 320 kilometres to the south, Rangoon, with five million people, is home to one-tenth the country’s population. But even if that city were brought to a standstill by public protests and demonstrations, Burma’s military government – situated happily in the middle of paddy fields in the middle of nowhere – would remain unaffected." Varadarajan, Siddharth: Naypyitaw: Dictatorship by cartography. Himal, Helmikuu 2007. The Southasia Trust. Artikkelin verkkoversio. (englanniksi) (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)
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"Naypyitaw, then, is the ultimate insurance against regime change, a masterpiece of urban planning designed to defeat any putative ‘colour revolution’ – not by tanks and water cannons, but by geometry and cartography. 320 kilometres to the south, Rangoon, with five million people, is home to one-tenth the country’s population. But even if that city were brought to a standstill by public protests and demonstrations, Burma’s military government – situated happily in the middle of paddy fields in the middle of nowhere – would remain unaffected." Varadarajan, Siddharth: Naypyitaw: Dictatorship by cartography. Himal, Helmikuu 2007. The Southasia Trust. Artikkelin verkkoversio. (englanniksi) (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)
