Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

Dover Beach (moon.blanched@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:

> Veronique <veroniqueunique@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:f30387f9-e5b5-45ab-a846-f15c7eef2573@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> com: 
> 
>> 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. 
> 
> 
> 

She'd prefer to call it "home," but it's hardly recognizable as such 
at the moment.

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