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Gothmog

(144,848 posts) Mon Feb 1, 2021, 04:10 PM Feb 2021

NEW statement from Biden on military coup in Burma

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NEW statement from Biden on military coup in Burma (Original Post) Gothmog Feb 2021 OP

I'm glad they're calling it "Burma" and not "Myanmar" ... Jeebo Feb 2021 #1

+1000 nt mr_lebowski Feb 2021 #2

Rt TY Cha Feb 2021 #3

Seems some of that message is directed to home folks ... Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #4

Jeebo

(2,015 posts)

1. I'm glad they're calling it "Burma" and not "Myanmar" ...

Reply to Gothmog (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2021, 04:18 PM

Feb 2021

That military junta who have been running that country for the past 30 years are some really nasty people. They are the ones who re-named the country "Myanmar" and because they had no right to be in control of that country, they had no right to re-name it either. The people of that country still call it "Burma" and that's what I'll always call it.

And Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the human beings on this planet whom I most admire.

-- Ron