Burma’s been in the news a lot recently because of the Rohingya crisis in the north-west of the country, where many thousands of the large ethnic Bengali community (who are denied Burmese citizenship) are fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh alleging persecution at the hands of the Burmese military and security forces.
Why do we say ‘Burma’ rather than ‘Myanmar’? Because the military government (the State Law and Order Restoration Council, or SLORC) which seized power in a coup in 1988, decided the following year to change the country’s official name to Myanmar. The democracy movement argued that they had no right to do so.
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Kay has been an expat for nearly 30 years. She set up the British Expat website back in early 2000, whilst living in London and missing the expat life. These days she spends much of her time lugging computers and cameras around the world. (Dave gets to deal with all the really heavy stuff.)
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