Burma Quotes
Prevented by the Military from ever taking office
The country was in the midst of fighting WWII and Burma was one of the battle fronts.
Prevented by the Military from ever taking office
This seemingly academic quotation became extremely important over 200 years after it was written because it documents the historical presence of the Rohingya Muslim people in the Arakan province of Burma (Myanmar) which is mostly very orthodox Buddhist. In 1982, the Burmese government revoked the citizenship of the Rohingya on the grounds that they were illegal immigrants from bordering Bangladesh and had no historical roots in Burma. This quotation shows that this claim was untrue.
Prevented by the Military from ever taking office. Although she won the Presidency overwhelmingly, the military refused to let her take office and established a right-wing military dictatorship holding her in house arrest for decades.
In 1832 the President sent Edmund Roberts, a New Hampshire sea captain, to arrange commercial treaties with Asian countries such as Burma, Indo-China, Siam and Japan:
Prevented by the Military from ever taking office
In the Chinese Civil War, the Communist forces under Chairman Mao had ousted the Kuomintang forces from the mainland. Most of the Kuomintang army retreated to Formosa and established Nationalist China. But an entire Kuomintang army moved into Burma without any consent of the Burmese. In effect, they had invaded. The Kuomintang army was stronger than the entire Burmese army and in effect controlled whatever part of the country they wished to. Further, they were growing opium poppies and were deep in the illegal international drug trade. Burma asked the UN to pressure Chaing Kai Chek and the nationalists on Formosa to transport the army out of Burma and to Formosa. However, the American conservatives were staunch allies of the Nationalists and blocked any efforts to pressure them to do anything which they did not wish to do. So the US official policy was that the Nationalist troops should be withdrawn but there was little pressure behind the policy. Thein, observed that solution could be easy of the United States so wished it. Finally, the troops were withdrawn and Burma was free.
