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1. During his stay in Burma, Crown Prince Naresuan was trained by the Burmese King Bayinnaung in martial arts, literature and military strategies, and was reared as one of the princes in the Burmese Palace
2. As a young boy Naresuan enjoyed watching cockfights when staying in Burma
3. conditions they had to live in when building the Burma railway, it was nothing like this, it gave him some comfort
4. The case of Ma Win Tar of Burma 228
5. In 1962, Ma Win Tar who was born in Burma with severe defects of both hands
6. The case of Maung Aung Htoo of Burma 229
7. The case of Maung Hla Hsaung of Burma 230
8. also suggested in the case of Maung Hla Hsaung, the child in Burma (previously described) who
9. said he was from Burma
10. Burma, Laos, and Thailand, known as the ‘Golden Triangle’ region
11. The closest I’d been to that was the Burma Shave signs of my youth spaced evenly along a farm roadside or highway, for which the owner probably picked up a couple of bills a year, and at a time zoning and DOT restrictions didn’t exist
12. They’re not real established, but there are these crazy ass fuckers that fled Burma, have no sense of human life
13. “Today India is more illiterate than it was fifty or a hundred years ago, and so is Burma, because the British administrators, when they came to India, instead of taking hold of things as they were, began to root them out
14. Non-violent struggles were carried out for freedom and justice in Latin America, East Germany, Philippines against President Marcos, against General Pinochet in Chile, old Soviet Union, Burma, Tibet, Communist China, etc
15. He learned that he fought in Burma against the Japanese
16. The Buddhists in Burma would say: “The boundless
17. Buddhism itself has been touched by this fire of devotion, and in Burma they
18. Ceylon and Siam, but when we came to Burma they objected to the negative
19. “How could you say that you destroyed our army? We have over three million soldiers in China, Manchuria, Burma and the rest of Asia and the Pacific
20. Burma and the Dutch East Indies will then be attacked by the end of December
21. From a strategic point of view, the Japanese would be so shocked by that raid that they could very well decide to delay their planned invasion of Burma and of the Dutch East Indies, in order to redirect more forces against the Philippines
22. Starting with Liz, maybe she hasn’t heard that Myanmar is the country once known as Prince – Burma, really
23. We must eliminate those threats! In my opinion, Burma is a secondary objective for us
24. The only good news out of Asia was the fact that the Japanese had yet to launch their feared invasion of Burma
25. Yet, after all that time, not a single army soldier has set foot yet on the Philippines, while the invasion of Burma has been postponed indefinitely
26. In order to satisfy the orders to take the Philippines, the invasions of Thailand and Burma had been postponed, four army divisions had been wasted, hundreds of planes and thousands of aviators had been lost and dozens of ships had been sunk, with thousands of sailors killed in the process
27. In accordance with this scenario, the Japanese Army was given the primary responsibility for conquering Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and Burma
28. But not for crimes committed by his troops in Malaya, Burma or Singapore
29. As a result, the invasion of Burma had been postponed indefinitely and the British forces in India had been left nearly alone
30. My forces in the Philippines bled for long months to suck in as many Japanese forces from around the Pacific as possible, disrupting the Japanese war timetable and preventing their invasion of Burma
31. What did the British do then? They cut back their Indian Ocean fleet and stayed still in Burma, instead of supporting China against the Japanese, doing so in order to be able to reinforce their Mediterranean front
32. Burma in the West to Vietnam in the East
33. Second Burmesewar (1852) and annexation of Lower Burma
34. semi-wild in Lower Burma (Myanmar) and the Malaysian peninsula
35. Most Rubies now though, come from Africa or the nearby Burma and Sapphires from Sri Lanka
36. which, in the meantime, had entered the war– occupied Burma in Southeast Asia,
37. So Japanese aircraft sank both ships (the Brits hadn’t thought to provide any air cover, which made any menace they posed very vague indeed) and invaded Malaya and Burma
38. In Burma, the British and their Australian, New Zealand, and Indian troops had to retreat over 900 miles to reach India before the monsoon
39. They made it – just – and the Japanese took Burma
40. They force-marched thousands of American prisoners in the Philippines in a death march to prison camps, beat, tortured, and murdered Allied POWs and worked them to death as slaves, especially building the notorious Burma railway
41. The British launched a big offensive in Burma and then got pushed back again
42. Specially-trained British jungle fighters known as chindits (from the chinthe – a half-lion-half-dragon beast seen in Burmese temples) landed deep behind Japanese lines in Burma, but so few of them came back it wasn’t clear that the attack had been worth the cost
43. The Japanese set up a puppet government in Burma but it was soon clear that they intended to rule the country entirely for their own benefit
44. Aung San U served in that puppet government but he quickly turned against the Japanese and formed the government that oversaw the end of the Japanese occupation and negotiated independence for Burma
45. Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize and has become an international symbol of protest against military rule, not just in Burma but around the world, but so far the Burmese government has shown no sign whatever of bending to international – or Burmese – opinion and reintroducing democracy
