SUU KI ABOUT Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma. In the 1990 general election‚ the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had‚ however‚ already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010‚ becoming one of the world’s most
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India has formal diplomatic relations with most nations; it is the world’s second most populous country‚ the world’s most-populous democracy and one of the fastest growing major economies.[1] With the world’s seventh largest military expenditure‚[2] ninth largest economy by nominal rates and third largest by purchasing power parity‚ India is a regional power‚[3] a nascent great power and a potential superpower. India’s growing international influence gives it a prominent voice in global affairs‚
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parallel to one another‚ separated by the major river basins. These river basins are the corelands. The mountain ranges are the Annamite chain of Vietnam‚ the Shan highlands of western Thailand and eastern Burma extending to Main peninsula and the Arakanyoma of Western Burma. Irrawady‚ Salween‚ (Burma) Menam (Thailand) and Mekong (Kampuchea and Vietnam) are the main river basins. In contrast to this stability and regularity of the mainland mountain chains‚ the younger active belt of volcanism is associated
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Over 100‚000 Rohingya have been murdered. The Rohingya are an Islamic minority that live in Rakhine State‚ Burma‚ which is near Bangladesh. They have resided there for centuries‚ yet the Burmese government refuses to give them humanitarian aid unless they sign documents as Bengalis‚ or in other words‚ illegal immigrants. In 2012‚ local political leaders and Buddhist monks started targeting the Rohingya with hate speeches towards Muslims‚ and since then‚ the violence and hatred have escalated. Humanitarian
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Mississippi in the form of a category 5 storm and the category 4 cyclone Nargis hit the LEDC nation‚ Burma‚ particularly the Irrawaddy delta. Despite similar magnitudes the impacts of these two tropical revolving storms varied-
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POW’s‚ particularly under the Japanese‚ in WW2 was horrifying‚ and is considered one of the greatest war atrocities Australia has ever seen. This essay will showcase the ___ treatment of POW’s in Changi‚ Singapore‚ and along the construction of the Burma –Thailand railway line as well as mentioning the experiences of those in Europe and the experience of POW civilians and nurses. All those who interred during WWII faced harsh conditions‚ and their experiences has significantly impacted Australian history
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the development of Southeast Asian nationalism‚ its indigenous and traditional influence waned as external Western ideology overshadowed it. In British Burma and Dutch East Indies‚ tradition and religion played a dominant role in influencing the aims‚ methods and ideological outlook of their nationalism movements- but only op till the 1920s. In Burma‚ the Young Men Buddhist Association (YMBA) was formed in 1906 with moderate aims concerned
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you may be outnumbered. Be not afraid to seek peace‚ even if your voice may be small. Be not afraid to demand peace” – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Aung San Suu Kyi has been a human rights leader for Burma since 1988. She has stood by her country and campaigned for the freedom and democracy of the people of Burma. Despite her efforts Suu Kyi was arrested by the government led by brutal dictator U Ne Win‚ the Junta military‚ and put under house arrest. During the two decades which spent under house arrest
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at Yunnan University [Yun Da] and I wanted to visit Dali‚ the famed city that was the terminus of the Burma Road. It was built in 1940 to allow supplies to cross into China from British occupied Burma. The supplies were desperately needed to fight against the Japanese who were in Manchuria‚ as it was known then. Rumor had it that all the truck drivers who were hired to transport goods on the Burma Road were paid in gold for the amount of material that they brought. It was extremely dangerous work
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June 25‚ 1903‚ as Eric Arthur Blair and passed away January 21‚ 1950‚ in India (“George Orwell Biography”). Orwell was known for his journals‚ novels‚ and essays published about his own political views (“George Orwell Biography”). Orwell traveled to Burma after not doing good enough in school to earn a scholarship and decided to join the imperial police (Orwell 66). While on duty one day‚ Orwell received a call that a rampaging elephant was on the loose that had killed a man and destroyed a hut (Orwell
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