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Lower Myanmar (Burmese: အောက်မြန်မာပြည်, also called Lower Burma) is a geographic region of Myanmar and includes the low-lying Irrawaddy Delta (Ayeyarwady, Bago and Yangon Regions), as well as coastal regions of the country (Rakhine and Mon States and Tanintharyi Region).
The Myanmar civil war (Burmese: မြန်မာ့ပြည်တွင်းစစ်), [o] also known as the Burmese civil war, is an ongoing civil war since 2021. It began following Myanmar's long-running insurgencies , which escalated significantly in response to the 2021 coup d'état and the subsequent violent crackdown on anti-coup ...
It is the world's longest ongoing civil war, spanning almost eight decades. [7] [8] [9] In 1940, during World War II, Burmese intellectuals formed the Thirty Comrades, who later established the Burma Independence Army (BIA) to fight against the Allies. Aung San led the State of Burma, switching allegiance to the Allies in mid-1944.
One of the numerous camps scattered all over the region where between 150,000 and 250,000 internally displaced people have taken shelter after Myanmar military airstrikes and artillery forced them ...
A predominantly Catholic ethnic group, the Karenni have been fighting for self-determination since Myanmar, then known as Burma, gained independence from the British in 1948. ... Weapons of war ...
Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar's embattled ruling generals are making their most concerted effort to gain legitimacy - by pushing ...
This is a list of wars that involve Myanmar.Throughout Burmese history many wars had been fought with the ethnic majority Bamar and its neighbors, other Myanmar people such as the Mon people who are the founders of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom and the Rakhine people who are the founders of the Kingdom of Mrauk U as well as other foreign states and ethnicity such as Thailand which has been the ...
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been beset with political instability since it was granted independence from the United Kingdom in January 1948. Between 1958 and 1960, the military formed a temporary caretaker government at the behest of U Nu, the country's democratically elected prime minister, to resolve political infighting. [37]