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Burma
[ bur-muh ]
Burma
/ ˈbɜːmə /
Burma
- Republic in Southeast Asia , now officially known as Myanmar , bordered by Bangladesh , India , and the Bay of Bengal to the west; China to the north and northeast; Laos and Thailand to the east; and the Andaman Sea to the south. Rangoon is its capital and largest city.
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He became a globe-trotting peace advocate, pushing for justice, freedom and an end to conflict in Israel-Palestine, Rwanda, Burma and Iraq.
In addition, there are examples of women from Buddhist communities in Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Burma receiving full ordination abroad.
In 1988, camera films had to be smuggled out of Burma, as Myanmar was then known, before the world could see the streets bathed with blood.
They have to show the military the cost of brutally repressing Burma’s people—targeted sanctions against the military leaders, the military’s business interests, and civilian business who support the military.
The couple had grown up together in Myanmar, formerly Burma.
As a result, Burma was welcomed back to the international community.
Although Burma is warm during the day, the temperature drops dramatically at night.
Tha returned to Thailand to restock on medicine, and the Free Burma Rangers were born.
Tha had begun working with Karen refugees in Thailand when one day he decided to head into Burma itself.
“The war goes on,” Tha U Wa A Pa the leader of the Free Burma Rangers, tells me from deep within the Burmese jungle.
It took me back to Burma and a certain very uncomfortable night that I once passed in the jungle.
Everyone knows Mandalay by name from Kipling's poem, even if they know nothing of the rest of Burma.
You will see plenty of elephants here, for elephants are to Burma what camels are to Egypt, the regular beasts of burden.
Some of the largest pagodas have been restored, which is rather a wonder in Burma as restoration does not make for "merit."
I am now hurrying on to India proper and must conclude my impression of Burma with this letter.
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