I don't know why you are so confused. I looked at the Wikipedia article on Burma and read through the history part and found no mention of communism at all....clearly a military junta has been in charge.....I don't know how you came up with "communist". I think your recollections are inaccurate throughout and best start from scratch and build a new database.lyndon taylor wrote:You must forgive me, I'm running on memory here, but all the media in The USA as I remember it has been saying Burma was taken over by communists many years ago, its certainly not a Buddhist dictatorship, and that this lady in the opposition, i can't spell her name so I won't try, was a buddhist nun, imprisoned for promoting Buddhism and freedom, now it seems shes no longer a nun, and now how could she ever have been a nun as they didn't have nuns in South East Thervada Asia that long ago. Now of course you can't believe everything in the media, but that's my recollection, corrections??/ Please.
Well all I can get off Google is there have been a lot of communists fighting in Burma, having and not having part in the government, a lot of alliances with China, though technically the dictatorship is not called communist, we need an expert to speak, because the wikepedia article is very confusing.
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