Like many countries that became independent from their colonial rulers, the nation formerly know as Burma changed its name in the latter half of the twentieth century. The country’s name was changed to Myanmar in 1989 after a military coup toppled the ruling totalitarian Burma Socialist Programme Party. However, the symbolic meaning of the name […]
Like many countries that became independent from their colonial rulers, the nation formerly know as Burma changed its name in the latter half of the twentieth century. The country’s name was changed to Myanmar in 1989 after a military coup toppled the ruling totalitarian Burma Socialist Programme Party. However, the symbolic meaning of the name […]