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Myanmar
Southeast Asian country formerly named Burma but renamed Myanmar in 1989
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Military dictatorship in myanmar burma?
Burma (also known as Myanmar) is ruled by a murderous and merciless military regime. Senior General Than Shwe is the current head of state, with his other co-generals, all of them are members of the so-called State Peace and Development Council.
The controlling regime has been criticized for a great number of human rights violations. Shwe's army has destroyed 3,000 villages across the country, launched a terrible campaign against the Muslim minorities in Burma, forcing an estimated 250,000 people to flee to neighbouring country Bangladesh as refugees and recruiting over 70,000 child soldiers at gunpoint. His daughter, Thandar Shwe's wedding, was so extravagant that some of the wedding gifts given to her cost a shocking $50,000,000! The video of the wedding, I think, was smuggled out of Burma and uploaded on Youtube.com, or maybe it was uploaded secretly in Burma...
His army, the Tatmadaw, is now nearly half-a-million strong and uses rape as a weapon against the ethnic minorities in Burma.
There are over 1,000,000 internally displaced people throughout the country, these people have been forced to choose between slavery or to flee to the jungle...many chose to flee into the jungle and are now struggling to survive.
He has continously told the Burmese that his government is following the road to democracy, but the road to democracy that he is talking about is just the road to nowhere and more repression.
Shwe is the one and only man who is greatly HATED by the Burmese people, whatever he does, and if he even says that he is leading the Burmese nation and people to prosperity, he's not.
Yes it does have a mean bad dictator
Rhiannon
When is the Water Festival in Myanmar?
It is from April 13 to 16 this year 2023. We call it Thin-Gyan. It is followed by Myanmar new year. It is 17th April. Myanmar people are very happy to celebrate it and try to do good deeds during these days. But most of Myanmar people could not enjoy it since 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. If you interested what is really happening in Myanmar, please follow the youtube channel of AMTOBurma.
The river that flows south from mandalay in Myanmar to rangoon and into the bay of Bengal?
The Irrawaddy river.
c) Lias-Liao
What animals are there in Burma?
There is lots of animals living in Burma such as tigers, white tigers cattle and deer.
Trace the Democratic Movement in Myanmar?
Democratic movement in Myanmar :
(1) Myanmwar was previously known as Burma. It gained independence from the
British colonial rule in 1948 and became a democracy.
(2) But the democratic rule in the country came to an end in 1962 with a military coup.
(3) In 1990, free and fair elections were held for the first time after almost three decades.
(4) The National League for Democracy won the election. It was the political party
led by Aung San Suu Kyi, a great freedom fighter.
(5) But the military leaders of Myanmar refused to step down. They did not recognize
the election results. Instead, they put Suu Kyi and other pro-democracy leaders under
house arrest. Myanmar still has no democratic government.
Germany had been moving eastward in North Africa for control of the Suez Canal and the oil fields of Southwest Asia; Japan was moving westward for a hook-up with it's Axis partner in the oil rich region. The Suez Canal would provide the short-cuts when traversing with the newly attained oil riches.
Different Answer: No, the Japanese invaded Burma in 1941 to cutoff supplies from the United States to China, going through Burma. Burma was a British Colony. Both Britain & the United States were supporters of China in its resistance to Japanese aggression in China since 1937. The Japanese Army (which ran the Japanese government) was completely obsessed with the goal of defeating and subjugating China. The Japanese already by 1940 controlled all direct access of Chinese ports, so that China was cutoff by sea and would have to get its supplies over-land from the south (French Indo-China) and southwest (Burma). Earlier supplies from China's supporters had been coming to China from French Indochina (a French colony) until France was defeated by Germany and the Japanese occupied that colony. This forces supplies to China to travel through Burma, from the Port at Rangoon to Kunming, China.
What country do Burmese people come from?
The most dominant group are the Burmans, they came from china form the kingdom of Nanzhao. However there is a very small minority in Myanmar called Kalar and rohingya and they are from south asia.
What Wikipedia says "The Bamar are of East Asian descent and speak a Sino-Tibetan language (related to Tibetan and more distantly to Chinese). They migrated from the present day Yunnan in China into the Irrawaddy River valley in Upper Burma about 1200-1500 years ago."
What was the former name for Myanmar?
Myanmar was originally known as Burma, and that is still its official name. No legislature in Burma has actually approved the name Myanmar, which is derived from the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw and has been promoted by the military authorities in Burma.
Burma, which is the former name of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, is a country in Southeast Asia. It has a total area of 676,578 square kilometers.
How many people live in the capital city of Myanmar?
Naypyidaw is the capital city of Myanmar. Naypyidaw's population is approximately 925,000.
