1945 Rangoon‚ Burma (present-day Myanmar) Burmese political leader I n 1988 Aung San Suu Kyi became the major leader of the movement toward the reestablishment of democracy in Burma (now Myanmar). In 1991‚ while under house arrest by the government for her activities‚ she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Early life Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon‚ Burma‚ on June 19‚ 1945‚ the youngest of three children of Bogyoke (Generalissimo) Aung San and Daw Khin Kyi. (In Burma all names are
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on Burma ’s south-eastern border with Bangladesh. Arakan is one of the provinces of Burma and has a population of five million 40 percent of whom are Muslims. Burma was officially renamed as Myanmar on 18 June with its capital at Yangoon. Military rule covers the most of the history of Burmese politics. The Arakan Muslims are unhappy with the prevailing political system in Burma and some of them are harbouring an idea to establishment an independent homeland[1]. The military regime in Burma have
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BURMA Burma‚ a resource-rich state‚ suffers from general polity controls‚ inefficient theme policies‚ debasement‚ and acrostic impoverishment. Despite Burma’s starting as Associate in nursing innate gas businessperson‚ sociology-economic conditions human deteriorated below the direction of the first programmed. Some thirty second of the assemblage lives in impoverishment and Asian country is that the poorest state in Southeast Accumulation. The priority condition is wide perceived
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short stories including “Shooting an Elephant”‚ which was publish 1936. On January 21‚ 1950 Orwell died at University college Hospital. He was buried at All Saints Churchyard‚ Sutton Courtenay. Shooting an Elephant takes place in a town in southern Burma. Orwell writes of his experience in British ruled India in the early twentieth century. The story concerns a colonial officer if obligation to shoot a rogue elephant. The narrator does not want to shoot the elephant‚ but feel forced to by a crowd
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Elephant" By Christina Harry 06/19/2013 English Composition 111 "Shooting An Elephant" by George Orwell (1903-1950) is to me‚ a memoir of the time he spent in Moulmein‚ Burma‚ as a European sub-divisional police officer of the town. He was sent there to attempt control of the unruly Burmese people by the British Empire. Orwell was a white European and was hated by the people because Europeans had treated them so badly
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Military rule On 2 March 1962‚ the military led by General Ne Win took control of Burma through a coup d’état and the government has been under direct or indirect control by the military since then. A new constitution of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma was adopted in 1974. In May 1990‚ the government held free elections for the first time in almost 30 years and the National League for Democracy (NLD)‚ the party of Aung San Suu Kyi‚ won 392 out of a total 489 seats (i.e.‚ 80% of
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from the state of Rakhine (also known as Arakan‚ or Rohang in the Rohingya language) in Burma. The Rohingya are ethno-linguistically related to the Indo-Aryan peoples of India and Bangladesh (as opposed to the majority Sino-Tibetan people of Burma). The region of Rakhine was annexed and occupied by Myanmar in the 1700s‚ thus bringing the Rohingya people under Burmese rule. As of 2012‚ 800‚000 Rohingya live in Burma. According to the United Nations‚ they are one of the most persecuted minorities in the
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of people that belief they share the same ancestry‚ history‚ cultural traits such as language and religion which are different from other group. Some said ethnic group is equal as cultural group. However‚ Edmund Leach who studied Kachin people in Burma (Myanmar) argued that by assuming that there are no differences between ethnic group and cultural group will lead to failure in addressing various aspects of ethnic phenomena (Dr. Rie Nakamura’s slide‚ What is an Ethnic Group? Ethnic troubles &
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George Orwell’s short story “Shooting an Elephant‚” is set in Burma during the British rule. The narrator is a white policeman who is forced to shoot an elephant that has gone rogue and is destroying crops and buildings and has killed one person. He gathers his guns and sets off in the direction of the rogue elephant and his following of natives increases as he gets closer to the elephant. The elephant’s owner is not in town so he is forced to make a decision about shooting the elephant. The narrator
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true companion. It is John Flory’s unprecedented natural sense of equality in all mankind that is the root cause for his loneliness throughout the book Burmese Days by George Orwell. There are very few potential friends for a white bachelor in Burma in the 1920’s‚ and Mr. Flory destroys practically every possibility immediately by thinking that all men are created equal. The other dozen or so members of the whites-only Club could not agree less. Mr. Ellis‚ the most vocal Club member in his opposition
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