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Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia.It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. [18]
Some veterans had been formed into a paramilitary force under Aung San, ... Myanmar: A political history (Oxford University Press, 2016) online. Kyaw Thet (1962).
A bicameral parliament was formed, consisting of a Chamber of Deputies and a Chamber of Nationalities. [7] The geographical area Burma encompasses today can be traced to the Panglong Agreement, which combined Burma proper, which consisted of Lower Burma and Upper Burma , and the Frontier Areas , which had been administered separately by the ...
This is a timeline of Burmese or Myanmar history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Burma and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Burma. See also the list of Burmese leaders. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items ...
Mongol Empire formed 29 December 1911: Proclamation of Mongolian independence from Manchu's Qing dynasty Myanmar: 1 February 2021: The SAC with help from the Tatmadaw overthrows the elected government 849: Early Pagan Kingdom formed [19] 4 January 1948: Myanmar (Burma) declares independence from the British Empire: 1956
The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, formed in 2018 to analyse evidence of serious violations of international law, said it had received information that several individuals ...
Kachin regular soldiers previously formed a significant part of the Myanmar Army; however, after Ne Win's regime seized power in 1962, many Kachin soldiers defected from the military and reorganised with already active Kachin insurgents to form the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), under the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO).
The capture of BGP5 also shows the Arakan Army to be one of the most effective fighting forces in Myanmar. Formed only in 2009 – much later than most of Myanmar's other insurgent groups – by ...