In May, amid growing border tensions between Thailand and Burma, five artillery shells from Burma landed in the compound of the Royal Project at Doi Angkang in northern Thailand?s Chiang Mai province. It was a deliberate act ofprovocation, Thai army leaders charged. At about the same time, in Rangoon, a more powerful shot was fired in The New Light of Myanmar, the junta?s mouthpiece. In a series of commentaries, Burmese historian Dr Ma Tin Win insulted Thailand?s revered Royal Family by accusing a nineteenth-century monarch of selling out his country to Western imperialists in order to preserve his own status...