What Happened to Myanmar?
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- NEW YORK, November 18, 2019 - Thant Myint-U, author of the new book 'The Hidden History of Burma', discusses his native Myanmar with Asia Society Executive Vice President Tom Nagorski. (1 hr., 18 min.)
After the military junta took over power by coup d'etat in 1962, it systematically destroyed every civil institution. Now, when the democratically elected government came to power, these civil institutions can barely play an effective part. Moreover, nearly all these institutions are headed by military officers from the previous military government. The present government has no choice but to continue to use their services as the ruling party lacks competent persons to fill these posts. This situation is aggravated when these officers' loyalty lies not with the present administration but with the previous government.
Great video. It feels like Myanmar got the short straw. It feels like we are living in a reality of everything that can go wrong has gone wrong. Even now the glimmer of hope is being shadowed by the sins of the past. I wish there is an alternate reality where our national leaders were not assassinated, the military leaders did not betray the nation and the people and enriched themselves and the shadows of the past no longer clouds our future.
its worth listening and reading books for all Burmese people to learn and think about our country and its future. thanks a lot to writer and appreciate it.
Respect to Sayar U Thant Myint U
……. they want better health care, they know they want better education, but no one is putting on the table genuine plans for the new national health care system and no one is presenting different kind of alternatives……. Burma never connected to those debates and instead …….
OMG really full of insights, worth- watching again and again
Very interesting talk. Thank you for uploading.
Wow!
I want to read the book....
He did not answer plain black and white rather than gray answer
Talk about discrimination, even rich, western countries in the world free from discrimination and racist problems??
So how can poor small country can achieve that kind of impossible task?
You don't know. He's a social climber trying to capitalize on the situation. His book glosses over several individuals who played pivotal roles and give credits to individuals (not to mention himself) who are close to him and who played marginal roles. As well, his anti-Suu Kyi rants are downright smears. He seems to hold a grudge against Suu Kyi for not giving him any role in the government. The reality is that Suu Kyi met with TMU many times. Every time, he came across as insincere and hopelessly Westernized. Therefore, Suu Kyi, working for the interest of the country, decided not to choose him. This book is the result.
Basically, "Give me the job because I have degrees" mentality. He doesn't know anything. His History PhD is softcore. He thinks he knows everything and entitled to everything. He'll keep criticizing so long as he never has a position. Egoist.
Alex who is Burmese
Are you joking with your stupid comparison?
Thant myint U hidden many facts regarding on Rohingya and other religious minorities stories who were being discriminated for the differences of their religions systems, and he tried to defense myanmar's army committed genocide crime against Rohingya.He was working as adviser of the Thein sein government and he has had very close relationship with many generals, and we believe he is working as a defender of myanmar's army rather standing as true historian or expert because he was try to misleading people by promoting propaganda Burma history of the the facts and evidances which are partly reflecting burmanization . It's same story which majority burmese so called schoolar or researchers were using since decades.
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Yes, he is no exception when it comes to the Burman's inferiority complex and hiding the real history of the Rohingyas and severe discrimination towards the Muslims.
ပုဆိုးဝတ္ ဗုဒၶ လူမ်ိဳးေတြ နကတိုင္တို႔ ေဘာင္းဘီတို႔ ဝန္တတ္လာရင္ လူသားစိတ္ရိွလာဖို႔ ျဖစ္လာနိင္တယ္ ဘာေၾကာင့္ဆိုရင္ တိုးတက္တ့ဲ နိင္ငံတိုင္းက လူမ်ိဳး ဘာသာခြဲျခားတ့ဲ လုပ္ရပ္က နိင္ငံ သိတ္ခါ လူမ်ိဳး သိတ္ခါ အတြက္ အက်ိဳးမရိွမွန္း သိလို႔ခံယူထားျခင္းေၾကာင့္ပါ
People don't know. He's a social climber trying to capitalize on the situation. His book glosses over several individuals who played pivotal roles and give credits to individuals (not to mention himself) who are close to him and who played marginal roles. As well, his anti-Suu Kyi rants are downright smears. He seems to hold a grudge against Suu Kyi for not giving him any role in the government. The reality is that Suu Kyi met with TMU many times. Every time, he came across as insincere and hopelessly Westernized. Therefore, Suu Kyi, working for the interest of the country, decided not to choose him. This book is the result.
When Aung San Suu Kyi appeared before the International
Court of Justice in the Hague, her handlers made sure that she appeared with a
head full of hair dye, regardless of the genocide speculation against her government,
Myanmar, charges against the Rohingya, with that simple marketing appearance,
the sympathy of the court is hoped will be in her favor.
Unfortunately, the historian is flogging the dead horse of British imperialism. No different from the communist-influenced chauvinist generals. Burma’s the only ex-colony still blaming the country's self-inflicted woes on the British and Indian *capitalists*. Burma never had a mercantile class under its kings. Under British rule, the Burmese chose
knowledge, instead of commerce.
Highly-educated, they became barristers-at-law, judges -- and Fabians. It was the only colony granted Home Rule by the British and boasted three fluent English-speaking Burmese prime ministers. Two of them were
knighted. After the second Anglo-Burmese war of 1852, Rangoon was developed by British and Indian capital, and Indian labour. (A former colony, resource-rich Malaysia evolved and has come to terms
with its Indian and Chinese minorities. Look where that country is today).
The writer has yet to acknowledge the fact that Marxist-Leninist doctrine -- the Burmese Way to Socialism (1962-1988) -- has led to the exodus of millions of Burmese - including the country’s ablest sons and daughters -- seeking a better life for their children. Under the dictatorship, the country became the cold killing fields.
ARakan is historic Bangladesh. its time for unification
androidbey No, you are wrong. Some part of bangladesh belonged to Burma even before British colony.
@@Y2n123 You failed to understand *historic* going back to the time of Maurya Empire and beyond.