Human Rights Watch1y
II. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The British colonized Burma in a series of three wars beginning in 1824. During their rule, the Arakan problem declined as the British allowed for a relative degree of local autonomy. From 1824 to ...
The Atlantic12y
Burma's Socialist Democracy
The new state of the Union of Burma which was established early ... followed by the strong centralized rule of the British, they arc but ill prepared for the choices which democracy inevitably ...
National Catholic Register9d
The Catholic Church and the Humanitarian Crisis in Burma’s War
The Church is not the structure; it is the people, the community. As long as we stay together and pray together, the Catholic ...
The Atlantic8y
Indians and Chinese in Burma
The Indians, our neighbors to the west, have been trading and settling in Burma for centuries, attracted by the opportunities of our fertile, uncrowded country. The British used cheap Indian labor ...
The Tribune19d
It was in the 1940s that the hill capital of the British Raj directly came to ‘host’ Burma, but the link goes back to the 19th century
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...