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HISTORY POST-COLONIAL BURMA 301 1937 A new constitution for Burma sets up a legislative council, giving locals a larger role in ...

HISTORY POST-COLONIAL BURMA 302 1947 Having gained independence from Britain and rallied ethnic groups to a 10- year deal where ...

HISTORY POST-1990 MYANMAR 303 1962 Following the coup by Ne Win, a peaceful student protest at Rangoon University is suppressed ...

HISTORY POST-1990 MYANMAR 304 1990 In May the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, conclusively wins th ...

HISTORY POST-1990 MYANMAR 305 2002 In March, Ne Win’s son-in-law and three grandsons are arrested for plotting to overthrow the ...

HISTORY POST-1990 MYANMAR 306 2007 Following fuel price hikes, monk-led protests hit Myanmar’s streets; after 50,000 march in Ya ...

307 People of Myanmar (Burma) Ethnically speaking, multicultural Myanmar is more salad bowl than melting pot. The government rec ...

PEOPLE OF MYANMAR (BURMA) MAIN ETHNIC GROUPS 308 whichever group was strongest – usually the Bamar (Burmese) in the past few hun ...

PEOPLE OF MYANMAR (BURMA) MAIN ETHNIC GROUPS 309 Zo of the adjacent state of Mizoram in India. Outsiders name the diff er- ent s ...

PEOPLE OF MYANMAR (BURMA) MAIN ETHNIC GROUPS 310 About the only vestige of Kachin dress that foreign visitors are likely to enco ...

PEOPLE OF MYANMAR (BURMA) MAIN ETHNIC GROUPS 311 The typical dress of both the Kayin men and women is a longyiiwith horizontal s ...

PEOPLE OF MYANMAR (BURMA) MAIN ETHNIC GROUPS 312 including Yangon’s Shwedagon Paya were appropriated by the Bamar (though the Go ...

PEOPLE OF MYANMAR (BURMA) WOMEN IN MYANMAR 313 a few groups continue a guerrilla-style confl ict in the mountains near Thailand. ...

PEOPLE OF MYANMAR (BURMA) WOMEN IN MYANMAR 314 Just as boys between the ages of fi ve and 20 usually undergo a pre- puberty init ...

315 Politics, Economics & , Sanctions Regardless of the many questions raised about the fairness of the pro- cess, the 2010 ...

POLITICS, ECONOMICS & SANCTIONS POLITICS 316 from the military or pro-military parties. In the new and all-powerful National ...

POLITICS, ECONOMICS & SANCTIONS POLITICS Other Political Parties & Opposition Groups 317 The NDF ended up with 16 electe ...

POLITICS, ECONOMICS & SANCTIONS ECONOMICS 318 one million refugees and internally displaced people, tens of thousands of chi ...

POLITICS, ECONOMICS & SANCTIONS THE SANCTIONS DEBATE 319 government doesn’t depend on it. As Ma Thanegi, a former aide to Au ...

POLITICS, ECONOMICS & SANCTIONS THE SANCTIONS DEBATE 320 In November 1999, the UN International Labour Organization took the ...