Kabir Bedi is a firm supporter of the freedom struggle in Burma, and has become an official ambassador of the Burma Campaign UK.

* 1942 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.

In the South-East Asian Theatre there was the siege of Singapore and in the Burma Campaign sieges of Myitkyina, the Admin Box, Imphal and Kohima which was the high-water mark for the Japanese advance into India.

The airbridge methods which were developed and used extensively in the Burma Campaign for supplying the Chindits and other units, including those in sieges such as Imphal, as well as flying the Hump into China, allowed the western powers to develop air lift expertise which would prove vital during the Cold War Berlin Blockade.

** Burma Campaign: The Battle of Kohima ends in a British victory.

Robinson has shown his support for the Burma Campaign UK, an NGO that aims to highlight human rights violations in Burma under the State Peace and Development Council.

General Sun was a popular Chinese war hero from the Burma Campaign against the Japanese and remained under house arrest until Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988.

Lumley supports the Burma Campaign UK, an NGO that aims to stop the oppression of the Burmese people by the military regime.

Category: Burma Campaign films

This second INA fought along with the Imperial Japanese Army against the British and Commonwealth forces in the campaigns in Burma, Imphal and Kohima, and later, against the successful Burma Campaign of the Allies.

The Salween Campaign of World War II, was launched in order to liberate occupied China and open the Burma Road again and connect it to the Ledo Road.

The river canyon was the scene of the successful Salween Campaign in World War II, a battle fought by the Chinese against Japan in 1944 – 1945 in order to open up the blockaded Burma Road supply route from India, in combination with a second campaign to remove Japanese forces from northern Burma.

The Campaign involved Chinese troops, assisted by American forces, crossing the upper Salween on 11 May 1944 in order to drive Japanese forces from Yunnan into northern Burma.

The closest examples to a true air invasion are the Battle of Crete, Operation Thursday ( the Chindits second operation during the Burma Campaign ) and Operation Market Garden.

The Burma Campaign pitted British, Commonwealth, Chinese, and American forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan and its auxiliary, the Indian National Army.

* 20 February-British Commonwealth forces during the Burma Campaign were repeatedly bombed and strafed by RAF Blenheims during a break-out attempt by a battalion surrounded by Japanese troops in Sittaung River, Burma.

* 21 February-Pilots of the 1st American Volunteer Group ( Flying Tigers ) strafed retreating Commonwealth forces who were mistaken for an advancing Japanese column during the Burma Campaign, resulting in more than 100 casualties.

The railway was never built to a level of lasting permanence and was frequently bombed by the Royal Air Force during the Burma Campaign.

Huston in 2005. In 2007, Huston led a letter campaign organized by the U. S. Campaign for Burma and Human Rights Action Center.

* Burma Campaign

Hutchison Whampoa has received criticism from charities such as the Burma Campaign UK and appear on the charity's ' dirty list ' for their involvement in trade with the military junta in Burma.

* Patron, Burma Campaign UK, the London based group campaigning for human rights and democracy in Burma

In 2008 Cotton Traders was forced to pull out of Burma after an investigation by the Burma Campaign UK uncovered the company was sourcing clothing from Burma.

The NGO Burma Campaign UK is currently campaigning against this project.

" The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War " by ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux ( US ), Hardback ( 2003 ), ISBN 0-374-11740-3 also Pan ( UK ), Paperback ( 2005 ), ISBN 0-330-42703-2

Kay continues to support the Burma Campaign UK and the need for democracy in Burma.

He advocates the work of the Burma Campaign UK.

Protesters march in London organised by the Burma Campaign UK in 2007

Burma Campaign UK ( BCUK ) founded in 1991 is a London based Non Governmental Organisation ( NGO ) that aims to achieve the ' restoration of human rights and democracy in Burma ( also known as Myanmar ).

Burma Campaign UK receives no government funding.

Following the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests Burma Campaign UK worked closely with international Burma Groups to help coordinate the Global Day of Action for Burma on 6 October 2007 through the " Support The Monks ' Protest In Burma " group on Facebook. com, when thousands of people demonstrated in over 25 countries across five continents.

US and European government sanctions against the military government, coupled with boycotts and other direct pressure on corporations by western supporters of the Burmese democracy movement, have resulted in the withdrawal from Burma of most U. S. and many European companies.

* Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy in Burma wins a majority of seats in the first free elections in 30 years in 1990, yet the Burmese military junta refuses to relinquish power, beginning an ongoing peaceful struggle throughout the 1990s to the present by Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters to demand the end of military rule in Burma.

During the final Allied offensive into Burma in 1945, there were then a series of uprisings in Burma against the Japanese, which Force 136 supported although it had little control or even influence over the rebellious BNA and its supporters.

Other major ports in the Indian Ocean include Muscat ( Oman ), Yangon ( Burma ), Jakarta, Medan ( Indonesia ) and Perth ( Australia ), Dubai ( UAE ).

Malaysia was a leading advocate of expanding ASEAN's membership to include Laos, Vietnam, and Burma, arguing that " constructive engagement " with these countries, especially Burma, will help bring political and economic changes.

The primary actors in these ethnic struggles include but are not limited to the Government of Burma ( junta ), the Karen National Union and the Mong Tai Army.

President Obama also issued an executive order expanding existing sanctions against individuals who violate human rights to include those who threaten Burma ’ s political restructuring process.

His best efforts in this line include The Gentleman in the Parlour, dealing with a journey through Burma, Siam, Cambodia and Vietnam, and On a Chinese Screen, a series of very brief vignettes which might almost be notes for short stories that were never written.

Just outside of Salt Lake City limits, newer immigrant communities include Nepalis, and refugees of Karen origin from Myanmar ( formerly Burma ).

* Other countries and territories with warlords include Afghanistan, Iraq, Burma ( Wa State ), Russia ( Chechnya ), Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Sudan, the Philippines, Pakistan ( Pashtun Tribal Areas ) and Tajikistan ( Gorno-Badakhshan )

Countries which have had stamps printed in India include Burma ( before independence ), Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Portugal, and Ethiopia.

Notable sources of tiger's eye include Australia, Burma, India, Namibia, South Africa, United States, Brazil, Canada, China, Korea and Spain.

Other neighbouring residents of Kachin State include the Shans ( Thai / Lao related ), the Lisus, the Rawangs, the Nagas, and the Burmans, the latter forming the largest ethnic group in Burma, also called Bamar.

Other prominent members of the Ashley-Cooper family include Liberal politician Evelyn Ashley, second son of the 7th Earl ; his son, noted politician, Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple, who was a member of the Conservative Party, and his daughter, Edwina, who married Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and last Vicereine of India.

The principal crop of Ayeyarwady Region is rice, and the division is called the “ granary of Burma .” In addition to rice, other crops include maize, sesame, groundnut, sunflower, beans, pulses, and jute.

Burma ( also known as Myanmar ) is divided into twenty-one administrative subdivisions, which include

The precise meaning of the name is disputed even by the Karen themselves ; possible interpretations include Flowerland and Land without evil, although, according to Martin Smith in Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity, it has a double meaning, and can also be rendered as the Land Burnt Black ; hence the land that must be fought for.

* March 19, 1942 Stilwell ’ s command in China is extended to include the Chinese 5th and 6th Armies operating in Burma after Chiang Kai-Shek gave his permission.

Gurung recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, include Lachhiman Gurung, VC ( 1917 – 2010 ) and Bhanbhagta Gurung VC ( 1921 – 2008, also known as Bhanbhakta Gurung ), who received it for his actions while serving as a rifleman with the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in Burma during the Second World War.

His other works include The War in Northern Burma ( 1946 ), 1587, a Year of No Significance ( 1981 ) ( also published in Chinese as The Fifteenth Year of Wan Li /《 萬曆十五年 》, 1985 ), Broadening the Chinese Field of Vision ( in Chinese, 1988 ), Chinese Macrohistory ( 1988 ) ( in Chinese 1993 ), Conversations about Chinese History on the Banks of the Hudson River ( in Chinese 1989 ), Discussions of Here and There and Old and New ( in Chinese 1991 ), Capitalism and the Twenty First Century ( in Chinese 1991 ), From a Macrohistory Perspective in Reading Jiang Jieshi's Diary ( in Chinese 1993 ), Contemporary Chinese Outlets ( in Chinese 1994 ), The Affair of Wan Chong ( in Chinese 1998 ), Yellow River Qing Mountain: Record of Huang Renzi's Recollections ( in Chinese 2001 ), and Bianjing Unfinished Dreams.

Violations of human rights include claims that there is no independent judiciary in Burma, that the military government restricts Internet access through software-based censorship, limiting the material citizens can access online, that Forced labour, human trafficking, and child labour are common, and that sexual violence is abundantly used as an instrument of control, including systematic rapes and taking of sex slaves as porters for the military.

Southeast Asia is usually thought to include Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor.

Countries currently represented in the student population include Rwanda, Brazil, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Australia, Bahamas, Burma ( Myanmar ), Canada, France, China, Ireland, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.

The focus of the India Office Records is in the territories mainly that today include India, Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh and their administration before 1947.

Because of the similar heritage and roles played, and because Burma was historically part of the Empire as part of India, Anglo-Burmans were once counted as Anglo-Indians ; today, Anglo-Indians still accept Anglo-Burmese as their " kith and kin " and world reunions of Anglo-Indians usually also include many who would also be classed more correctly as Anglo-Burmese, to reflect their Burmese, rather than Indian, blood.

Other minor monastic orders include the Dwara Nikaya in Lower Burma, and Hngettwin Nikaya in Mandalay, both of which have a few thousand member monks.