When I first visited Myanmar in 1995, I was struck by how many questions went unanswered with what seemed an almost standard response: "You know, Myanmar is complicated. You wouldn't understand."
Indeed, Myanmar is fiendishly complicated. It is an ethnically diverse country at the heart of Asia and a new "Great Game," with global powers China and India at its doorstep and, in the 2010s, other countries eyeing investment as well as democracy promotion. Where most former colonies have struggled to develop a unifying identity, in Myanmar the struggle is still in early stages and is now mired in intense and bloody violence.
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