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Burmese and government
* 1947 – The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.
From the time of the signing of the Burmese Constitution in 1948, ethnic minorities have been denied Constitutional rights, access to lands that were traditionally controlled by their peoples and participation in the government.
In 2011, the Burmese government enlisted the aid of International Monetary Fund to evaluate options to reform the current exchange rate system, to stabilize the domestic foreign exchange trading market and creates economic distortions.
The GAO report, entitled " Assistance Programs Constrained in Burma ," outlines the specific efforts of the Burmese government to hinder the humanitarian work of international organizations, including by restricting the free movement of international staff within the country.
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.
Since September 27, 2007, the U. S. Department of Treasury designated 25 senior Burmese government officials as subject to an asset block under Executive Order 13310.
On September 10, 2007, the Burmese Government accused the CIA of assassinating a rebel Karen commander from the KNU who wanted to negotiate with the military government.
However, with increasing bonhomie between the Indian government and the Burma junta and KIA becoming the main source of training and weapons for all northeastern rebel groups, R & AW initiated Operation Leech, with the help of Army and paramilitary forces, to assassinate the leaders of the Burmese rebels as an example to other groups.
The Chinese government heavily berated the Burmese government and started a war of words, but no other actions were taken.
Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ) has flown to Yangon in the past and still operates Hajj charter flights on behalf of the Burmese government.
* 1939 – Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
Bosnian, Sudanese, Afghani, Bantu, and Burmese immigrants have settled in the city under government programs.
After the Burmese government appealed to the United Nations in 1953, the U. S. began pressuring the ROC to withdraw its loyalists.
As an activist, Lumley is best known for her support for Gurkhas, the exiled Tibetan people and government, the Kondha indigenous people of India, and the Prospect Burma charity, which offers grants to Burmese students, for whom she broadcast a BBC Radio 4 charity appeal in 2001.
They have risen in revolt against the central Burmese government on a number of occasions, initially under the Mon People's Front and from 1962 through the New Mon State Party.
The Wa State and the UWSA are in a fragile cease-fire agreement with the Burmese military government.
In July 2012, it was reported that the Burmese government was moving forward with construction of the Hatgyi dam.
* 1965: The Burmese government arrests over 700 monks in Hmawbi, near Rangoon, for refusing to accept government rule.
* 1980: The Burmese military government asserts authority over the sangha, and violence against monks continues through the decade.
After the Burmese government appealed to the United Nations in 1953, however, the U. S. began pressuring the ROC to withdraw its loyalists.
In 1961, the Burmese government awarded him the title Maha Thray Sithu as a commander in the order of Pyidaungsu Sithu.

Burmese and continues
With little or no support from successive Burmese governments, the Mon language ( especially written Mon ) continues to be propagated mostly by Mon monks.
The conflict continues, with a new KNU headquarters in Mu Aye Pu, on the Burmese – Thai border.
Reports as recently as February, 2010, state that the Burmese army continues to burn Karen villages, displacing thousands of people.
Mandalay continues to be Burma's major trading epicenter, cultural and business networking hub for Burmese Chinese businessmen.
The Shwedagon Pagoda Festival, which is the largest pagoda festival in the country, begins during the new moon of the month of Tabaung in the traditional Burmese calendar and continues until the full moon.

Burmese and adopt
The aim of the commission was to correct the spelling of the place names of Burma in English, in order to discard spellings chosen by British colonial authorities in the 19th century, and adopt spellings closer to the actual Burmese pronunciation ( compare with what happened in India with Calcutta / Kolkata and Calicut / Kozhikode ).

Burmese and independent
* The Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi stated, " This poem had inspired my father, Aung San, and his contemporaries during the independent struggle, as it also seemed to have inspired freedom fighters in other places at other times.
Following the end of World War II, ambassador-level diplomatic relationships between France and Burma were established in 1948, soon after the Burmese nation became an independent republic on January 4, 1948, as Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu as its first Prime Minister.
Lanna's independent history ended in 1558, when it finally fell to the Burmese ; thereafter it was dominated by Burma until the late 18th century.
Besides King Taksin, who had organized his force in the south-eastern provinces, Prince Teppipit, King Boromakot's son, who had been unsuccessful in a diversionary action against the Burmese in 1766, had set himself up as the ruler of Phimai holding sway over the eastern provinces including Nakhon Ratchasima or Khorat, while the Governor of Phitsanulok, whose first name was Ruang ( Thai: เร ื อง ), had proclaimed himself independent, with the territory under his control extending to the province of Nakhon Sawan.
Burmese need a reasonable amount of human attention, are not as independent as other breeds and are not suited to being left alone for extended periods of time.
On 21 June 1875, an agreement was signed between the Burmese and the British recognising the independence of the four western Karenni states: “ It is hereby agreed between the British and Burmese Government that the State of Western Karenee shall remain separate and independent, and that no sovereignty or governing authority of any description shall be claimed or exercised over that State .” The agreement was signed by the two missions, with His Excellency the Kinwoon Mingyi, Minister for Foreign Affairs, signing on the part of His Majesty King Mindon of Burma ; and the Honorable Sir Douglas Forsyth, C. B., K. C. S. I., Envoy, signing on the part of His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor General of India.
With the fall of Ayutthaya to the Burmese in 1569, Patani had become virtually independent.
The organization stated that it hoped to reach some ten million Burmese through this new effort ( which it claims is the first free and independent Burmese language television channel ), which was funded in part by non-governmental organizations such as Free Voice of the Netherlands, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Freedom of Expression Foundation.
Ba Maw, the Prime Minister of the nominally independent Burmese government, dissuaded the Japanese from turning the Shwedagon Pagoda into a gun emplacement.
He had known personally some Burmese politicians such as Ba Maw who had later formed a government which, although nominally independent, collaborated through necessity with the Japanese occupiers.
Though sporadic wars continued with the Burmese and other neighbors, Chinese wars with Burma and European intervention elsewhere in Southeast Asia allowed the Thai to develop an independent course by trading with the Europeans as well as playing the major powers against each other in order to remain independent.

Burmese and foreign
Unlike the neighboring Khmer and Burmese, the Thai continued to look outward across the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea toward foreign ports of trade.
Some 250 were reported dead in Phuket, including foreign tourists, and as many perhaps as a thousand of the illegal Burmese workers building new beach resorts in the Khao Lak area.
* 1963: The Burmese government nationalized all foreign banks and essentially drove out the large population of people of Indian origin, among whom there were many Chettiars.
Money from Mainland China is able to flow into property and skirt the foreign ownership ban as many mainland Chinese either obtain Myanmar identity cards via bribery, marriage to a Myanmar national or through middlemen who are ethnic Chinese Burmese citizens.
The popular belief among the Burmese is that a warning about foreign attack was delivered to the military chief by an astrologer.
More specifically, the Burmese Way to Socialism is an economic treatise written in April 1962 by the Revolutionary Council, shortly after the coup, as a blueprint for economic development, reducing foreign influence in Burma, and increasing the role of the military.
The Burmese government asked to rejoin the World Bank, join the Asian Development Bank and sought more foreign aid and assistance.

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