Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

Veronique <veroniqueunique@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 11, 10:57 am, Mary <mrfeath...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Don K wrote:
>>
>> Meaning what, that the local yoyos should keep on using whatever name
>> the British Raj stuck the country with?
>>
>> Was the country known as Burma to the inhabitants themselves prior to
>> British rule?
> 
> 
> Yes, more or less. The biggest reason for opposition is Myanmar was
> imposed without referendum by the current military junta (the same
> junta which proved fairly indifferent to the effects of the recent
> cyclone on its population, and which is, right at the moment,
> restricting UN ****pments of aid to those affected.)
> 
> 

I wonder what Aung San Suu Kyi calls it?  Whatever she calls it, that's
what I would prefer to call it. 



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Dover