Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

Due to its particularly severe violations of religious freedom, the United States has designated Burma a Country of Particular Concern ( CPC ) under the International Religious Freedom Act.

* March 8, 2006: Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was granted martial Freedom of the City, ironically, in recognition of her non-violent work against the military dictatorship in Burma.

Also assisting in the capture of Rangoon was the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League led by Thakin Soe with Aung San ( the future Prime Minister of Burma and father of Aung San Suu Kyi ) as one of its military commanders.

In March 1946 Thakin Nu, U Pe Khin and Mahn Ba Khaing, leaders of Anti-Fascist and People Freedom League ( AFPFL ) from Burma, came to Loikaw to lobby Karenni people to accept incorporation with future Burma.

* The Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League in Burma ( now Myanmar ) from 1948 to 1962.

Beginning in 2009, however, commentators began to argue that the HRC was becoming increasingly relevant as the Council addressed country situations in Burma, Guinea, North Korea, Côte d ' Ivoire, Kyrgyzstan, Syria, Libya, Iran, and Sri Lanka, and addressed important thematic human rights issues such as Freedom of Association and Assembly, Freedom of Expression, Discrimination Against Women and Freedom of Religion and the rights of LGBT people.

According to Reporters Without Borders ' 2006 World Press Freedom Index, Turkmenistan had the 3rd worst press freedom conditions in the world, behind North Korea and Burma.

Today, we have three global legends serving as patrons of the World ’ s Children ’ s Prize: Nelson Mandela from South Africa, Democracy Champion Aung San Suu Kyi from Burma, and Freedom Fighter Xanana Gusmão, today Prime Minister, from East Timor.

The Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (, ; abbreviated AFPFL ), or hpa hsa pa la () by its Burmese acronym, was the main political party in Burma from 1945 until 1962.

However, the first postwar elections in Burma of April 1947 returned an overwhelming victory for Aung San's Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League ( AFPFL ) organization.

* 2003 – Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma.

* 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.

* Myanmar Democracy Congress, in Burma

U Nu, after his release from prison in October 1966, had left Burma in April 1969, and formed the Parliamentary Democracy Party ( PDP ) the following August in Bangkok, Thailand with the former Thirty Comrades, Bo Let Ya, co-founder of the CPB and former Minister of Defence and deputy prime minister, Bo Yan Naing, and U Thwin, ex-BIA and former Minister of Trade.

After keeping a low profile, teaching Buddhism in Burma and the United States-U Nu visited Northern Illinois University in the US to lecture on Buddhism in 1987-U Nu became once again politically active during the 8888 Uprising forming the first new political party, the League for Democracy and Peace ( LDP ).

* National League for Democracy, the main opposition party in Burma

His fellowship allowed him to complete a book documenting his history, called The Struggle for Democracy in Burma.

In 1999 with a Democrats of the Left delegation ( also with Walter Veltroni ) he went to Burma in support of the National League for Democracy and met the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi.

CPN ( Burma ) upheld the line of ' National Democracy Revolution ', a programmatic line presented by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 and adopted by the 1960 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in Moscow.

He wrote The Heart Must Break: the Fight for Democracy and Truth in Burma, published in the US as The Iron Road: A Stand for Truth and Democracy in Burma.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army ( MNDAA, ), formally the Kokang Democracy Party, is a rebel army of Kokang people in northeastern Burma and has existed since 1989.

* US Department of State, Burma, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-2005. Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

Britain's All-India Opium Act of 1878 formalized social distinctions, limiting recreational opium sales to registered Indian opium-eaters and Chinese opium-smokers and prohibiting its sale to workers from Burma.

In 1937, in consequence of the Government of India Act 1935, which among other things separated Burma and Aden from India, a new Burma Office was created, but the same Secretary of State headed both Departments and was styled the Secretary of State for India and Burma.

( 10 ) 1935 Government of India Act provides for Burma to be a separate country from India.

1936: Legislative Council elections, led to formation of Burmese government led by Ba Maw, under Government of Burma Act of 1935.

The Act barred specific origins from the Asia – Pacific Triangle, which included Japan, China, the Philippines ( then under U. S. control ), Siam ( Thailand ), French Indochina ( Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia ), Singapore ( then a British colony ), Korea, Dutch East Indies ( Indonesia ), Burma, India, Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) and Malaya ( mainland part of Malaysia ).

Service was regularised in 1837 by the Indian Post Office Act ; postage stamps of India were used from 1854, the Settlements being considered part of the " Bengal circle ", then from 1861 part of the " Burma circle ".

By demarcating an international boundary between India and Burma, colonial cartography mapped by the 1935 Act inadvertently partitioned an open Asian borderland – " Chin Lushai country " – inhabited by various Zo indigenous tribes referred to derogatorily as " savages newly brought under British control " in the minutes of the Chin Lushai Conference.

Yangon Airways developed a dubious reputation when reports surfaced that it was owned by the United Wa State Army ( a separatist militia involved in the Internal conflict in Burma ) and as such actively involved in drug trafficking, which prompted the US Government to have sanctions placed on the airline under the Kingpin Act on 13 November 2008.

With respect to human trafficking, Saudi Arabia was designated, together with Bolivia, Ecuador, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Burma, Jamaica, Venezuela, Cambodia, Kuwait, Sudan, Cuba, North Korea, and Togo, as a Tier 3 country by the United States Department of State in its 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report required by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 on which this article was originally based.

The Court reasoned that the United States Congress had passed a law imposing sanctions on Myanmar, and that the Massachusetts law " undermine the intended purpose and ' natural effect ' of at least three provisions of the federal Act, that is, its delegation of effective discretion to the President to control economic sanctions against Burma, its limitation of sanctions solely to United States persons and new investment, and its directive to the President to proceed diplomatically in developing a comprehensive, multilateral strategy towards Burma.

# The Government of Burma Act 1935 ( 26 Geo.

In response, in 1937, as Burma separated officially from British India and formed a separate crown colony, Anglo-Burmans were officially recognised as an ethnic group under the Government of Burma Act.

Civil wars have further resulted in economic collapse ; Burma ( Myanmar ), Uganda and Angola are examples of nations that were considered to have promising futures before being engulfed in civil wars.

An Imperial Conference in 1926 that included the leaders of all Dominions and representatives from India ( which then included Burma, Bangladesh, and Pakistan ), led to the eventual creation of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

The story about Wally being shot down over Burma was based in part on that of Irving's biological father ( whom he never met ), who had been shot down over Burma and survived.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma ( born on 14 February 1924 ), sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and Lady Pamela Carmen Louise ( Hicks ) ( born on 19 April 1929 ), who accompanied them to India in 1947-48 and was also sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen.

His mother, Ida Mabel Blair ( née Limouzin ), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.

Previously there were three brigades: 1st Infantry Brigade ( HQ in Teshie ), 2nd Infantry Brigade ( HQ in Kumasi ) and Support Services Brigade ( HQ in Burma Camp ).

The Ghana Air Force is headquartered in Burma camp Accra, and operates from bases in Accra ( main transport base ), Tamale ( combat and training base ), Takoradi ( training base ), and Kumasi ( support base ).

A German Government report on fuel prices dated 2010 / 11 stated that the Imperial gallon is used as a unit of measure for fuel in Guyana, United Arab Emirates and Antigua and Barbuda and the US gallon in Liberia, Belize, Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar ( Burma ), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and the United States.

* U Dhammaloka (? Laurence Carroll ), Buddhist monk and anti-missionary agitator in Burma, born in Dublin

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

The Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia, including Myanmar ( Burma ), Thailand, Laos and Cambodia traditionally harvested ivory from their domesticated elephants.

They were followed by Rohingya Muslim refugees from western Burma ( for more information, see Burmese people in Pakistan ), and Asian refugees from Uganda.

During the rest of the 1800s the unit was active in China, Canada ( Wolseley Expedition ), Afghanistan, India, Burma and South Africa.

Laos is a landlocked nation in Southeast Asia, northeast of Thailand, west of Vietnam, that covers 236, 800 square kilometers in the center of the Southeast Asian peninsula, is surrounded by Burma ( Myanmar ), Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Vietnam.

While the CIA Factbook in 2006 stated that the " US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system ", ( in addition to non-industrialised Burma / Myanmar, Liberia ), the actual situation, however, is more complicated than the CIA Factbook would suggest-in the United Kingdom, for example, although metric is the official system for most regulated trading by weight or measure purposes, the pint is the official unit for milk in returnable bottles and for draught beer and cider in British pubs, and miles, yards and feet remain the official units for road signage.

* Kennedy Peak ( Burma ), 2, 703 m

In the narrow southeastern part of Burma, the Ye, Heinze, Dawei ( Tavoy ), Great Tenasserim ( Tanintharyi ) and the Lenya rivers are relatively short and flow into the Andaman Sea.

The following is an overview of the demographics of Burma ( or Myanmar ), including statistics such as population, ethnicity, language, education level and religious affiliation.