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127 relations: Adoniram Judson, Ahlon Township, Aid agency, American Baptist International Ministries, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Anglicisation, Anglo-Burmese Wars, Animism, Annual Reviews (publisher), Aung San, Austroasiatic languages, Ayeyarwady Region, Bago Region, Bai language, Bamar people, Baptism, Baptists, BBC, Bombay Natural History Society, British rule in Burma, Buddhism, Burma Campaign, Burma National Army, Burmese general election, 1947, Burmese language, Cambridge University Press, Chiang Mai, Chin people, Christian, Christianity, Clement Attlee, Colonel, Communist Party of Burma, Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, Dharma, Eastern Pwo language, Ethnic cleansing, Freedom of religion, George Boardman (missionary), Gobi Desert, Government of the United Kingdom, Hill tribe (Thailand), India, Insein Township, Internally displaced person, Irrawaddy Delta, Japan, Kachin people, Karen Baptist Convention, Karen Baptist Theological Seminary, ..., Karen conflict, Karen Hills, Karen National Union, Karen of the Andamans, Karen Teacher Working Group, Karenic languages, Karenni people, Kayah State, Kayan people (Myanmar), Kayin State, Kyaing, Legislative council, London, Lower Myanmar, Mae Hong Son, Maitreya, Manerplaw, Military dictatorship, Militia, Mon language, Mon people, Mon State, Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms, Mount Zwegabin, Myanmar, Ne Win, Neck ring, Non-governmental organization, Pa'O language, Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan, Paku Divinity School, Panglong Conference, Penguin Books, Public holidays in Myanmar, Punna, Pwo Karen languages, Rakhine people, Rambo (2008 film), Red Karen language, Refugee, Refugee camp, Reginald Craddock, Routledge, S'gaw Karen language, Salween River, Saw Ba U Gyi, Schools of Buddhism, Self-governance, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Shan people, Shan State, Simon & Schuster, Sino-Tibetan languages, State Peace and Development Council, Subject–object–verb, Subject–verb–object, Suzuki Keiji, Tai languages, Tak Province, Tanintharyi Region, Tha Byu, Thailand, The Guardian, Theravada, Tibeto-Burman languages, U Nu, Umbrella term, Union Karen League, United States Department of State, Vegetarianism, Voice of America, Western Pwo language, World War II, Yale University Press, Yangon, Zoya Phan, 8888 Uprising. Expand index (77 more) »
Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson, Jr. (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years.
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Ahlon Township
Ahlone Township (အလုံ မြို့နယ်; also Ahlone Township) is located in the western part of Yangon.
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Aid agency
An aid agency is an organization dedicated to distributing aid.
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American Baptist International Ministries
American Baptist International Ministries (formerly known as the American Baptist Missionary Union and the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society) is an international Protestant Christian missionary society founded in 1814 in the United States.
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, one of the seven union territories of India, are a group of islands at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.
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Anglicisation
Anglicisation (or anglicization, see English spelling differences), occasionally anglification, anglifying, englishing, refers to modifications made to foreign words, names and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce, or understand in English.
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Anglo-Burmese Wars
There have been three Burmese Wars or Anglo-Burmese Wars.
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Animism
Animism (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
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Annual Reviews (publisher)
Annual Reviews, located in Palo Alto California, Annual Reviews is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.
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Aung San
Bogyoke (Major General) Aung San (13 February 1915 – 19 July 1947) served as the 5th Premier of the British Crown Colony of Burma from 1946 to 1947.
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Austroasiatic languages
The Austroasiatic languages, formerly known as Mon–Khmer, are a large language family of Mainland Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India, Bangladesh, Nepal and the southern border of China, with around 117 million speakers.
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Ayeyarwady Region
Ayeyarwady Region (ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,,; formerly Ayeyarwady Division and Irrawaddy Division), is a region of Myanmar, occupying the delta region of the Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy River).
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Bago Region
Bago Region (ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,; formerly Pegu Division and Bago Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the southern central part of the country.
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Bai language
The Bai language (Bai: Baip‧ngvp‧zix) is a language spoken in China, primarily in Yunnan province, by the Bai people.
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Bamar people
The Bamar (also historically the Burmese and Burmans) are the dominant ethnic group in Myanmar.
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Baptism
Baptism (from the Greek noun βάπτισμα baptisma; see below) is a Christian sacrament of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into Christianity.
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Baptists
Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Bombay Natural History Society
The Bombay Natural History Society, founded on 15 September 1883, is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research.
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British rule in Burma
British rule in Burma, also known as British Burma, lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a Province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Burma Campaign
The Burma Campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma, South-East Asian theatre of World War II, primarily between the forces of the British Empire and China, with support from the United States, against the invading forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army.
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Burma National Army
The Burma National Army (also known as the Burma Independence Army) (ဗမာ့အမျိုးသားတပ်မတော်) served as the armed forces of the puppet Burmese government created by the Japanese during World War II and fought in the Burma Campaign.
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Burmese general election, 1947
General elections were held in Burma on 9 April 1947 to form the basis of a constituent assembly that would design a constitution once independence from the United Kingdom had been achieved.
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Burmese language
The Burmese language (မြန်မာဘာသာ, MLCTS: mranmabhasa, IPA) is the official language of Myanmar.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.
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Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai (from เชียงใหม่, ᨩ᩠ᨿᨦ ᩲᩉ᩠ᨾ᩵) sometimes written as "Chiengmai" or "Chiangmai", is the largest city in northern Thailand.
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Chin people
The Chin people are one of the major ethnic nationalities in Burma.
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Christian
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
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Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman of the Labour Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
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Colonel
Colonel ("kernel", abbreviated Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank below the brigadier and general officer ranks.
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Communist Party of Burma
The Communist Party of Burma (ဗမာပြည်ကွန်မြူနစ်ပါတီ; abbreviated CPB) is the oldest existing political party in Myanmar (also known as Burma).
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Democratic Karen Buddhist Army
The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (တိုးတက်သော ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ ကရင်အမျိုးသား တပ်ဖွဲ့; abbreviated DKBA) was an insurgent group of Buddhist soldiers and officers in Myanmar that split from the predominantly Christian led Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), one of the largest rebel factions in Myanmar.
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Dharma
Dharma (dharma,; dhamma, translit. dhamma) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.
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Eastern Pwo language
Eastern Pwo or Phlou, is a Karen language spoken by over a million people in Burma and by about 50,000 in Thailand, where it has been called Southern Pwo.
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Ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or racial groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.
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Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance without government influence or intervention.
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George Boardman (missionary)
George Dana Boardman (February 8, 1801 – February 11, 1831) was an American missionary.
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Gobi Desert
The Gobi Desert is a large desert region in Asia.
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Government of the United Kingdom
The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Hill tribe (Thailand)
Hill tribe (ชาวดอย, ชาวเขา, คนเขา) (Northern Thai: จาวดอย, คนดอย,; "mountain people/folk") is a term used in Thailand for all of the various ethnic groups who mostly inhabit the high mountainous Northern and Western regions of Thailand, including both sides of the border areas between Northern Thailand, Laos and Burma, the Phi Pan Nam Range, the Thanon Range, the latter a southern prolongation of the Shan Hills, as well as the Tenasserim Hills in Western Thailand.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Insein Township
Insein Township (အင်းစိန်မြို့နယ်) is located in northern Yangon.
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Internally displaced person
An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders.
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Irrawaddy Delta
The Irrawaddy Delta or Ayeyarwady Delta lies in the Irrawaddy Division, the lowest expanse of land in Myanmar that fans out from the limit of tidal influence at Myan Aung to the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, 290 km to the south at the mouth of the Ayeyarwady River.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Kachin people
The Kachin people (Jingpho: Ga Hkyeng red soil), Jingpho Wunpong (Jingpho: Jinghpaw Wunpawng the Confederation of Jingpo) or simply Wunpong (the Confederation), are a confederation of ethnic groups who inhabit the Kachin Hills in northern Burma's Kachin State and neighbouring Yunnan Province, China, and Arunachal Pradesh, India.
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Karen Baptist Convention
Karen Baptist Convention, Myanmar was established in 1913.
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Karen Baptist Theological Seminary
The Karen Baptist Theological Seminary (ပှၤကညီဘျၢထံယွၤဂ့ၢ်ပီညါဖၠၣ်စိမိၢ) was established in 1845.
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Karen conflict
The Karen conflict is an armed conflict in Kayin State, Myanmar (formerly known as Karen State, Burma).
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Karen Hills
The Karen Hills, also known as Kayah-Karen Mountains, are one of the main hill ranges in eastern Burma.
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Karen National Union
The Karen National Union (ကရင် အမျိုးသား အစည်းအရုံး; abbreviated KNU) is a political organisation with an armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), that claims to represent the Karen people of Myanmar (Burma).
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Karen of the Andamans
The Karen of the Andamans are Karen people who live in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Karen Teacher Working Group
The Karen Teachers Working Group (KTWG) is a community based organisation founded in 1997 that works to promote and improve education in Karen State.
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Karenic languages
The Karen or Karenic languages are tonal languages spoken by some seven million Karen people.
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Karenni people
The Karenni, also known as the Red Karen, the Kayah or the Kayahli (meaning "red human"), are a Sino-Tibetan people living mostly in Kayah State, Myanmar (Burma).
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Kayah State
Kayah State (ကယားပြည်နယ်, formerly, Karenni State) is a state of Myanmar.
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Kayan people (Myanmar)
The Kayan are a sub-group of Red Karen (Karenni people), Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Myanmar (Burma).
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Kayin State
Kayin State (ကညီကီၢ်ဆဲၣ်,, ကရင်ပြည်နယ်,; formerly Karen) is a state of Myanmar.
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Kyaing
Kyaing is a village in Tilin Township, Gangaw District, in the north-western part of the Magway Region in Myanmar.
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Legislative council
A legislative council is the name given to the legislature, or one of the legislative chambers of a nation, colony, or subnational division such as a province or state; or, in the United States, a council within a legislature which supervises nonpartisan legislative support staff.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Lower Myanmar
Lower Burma (အောက်မြန်မာပြည်, also called Outer Myanmar) is a geographic region of Burma (Myanmar) and includes the low-lying Irrawaddy delta (Ayeyarwady, Bago and Yangon Regions), as well as coastal regions of the country (Rakhine and Mon States and Tanintharyi Region).
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Mae Hong Son
Mae Hong Son (แม่ฮ่องสอน) is a town (thesaban mueang) in north-west Thailand, capital of Mae Hong Son Province.
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Maitreya
Maitreya (Sanskrit), Metteyya (Pali), is regarded as a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology.
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Manerplaw
Manerplaw (မာနယ်ပလော) was a village in Kayin State, Myanmar (Burma).
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Military dictatorship
A military dictatorship (also known as a military junta) is a form of government where in a military force exerts complete or substantial control over political authority.
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Militia
A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel, or historically, members of a warrior nobility class (e.g., knights or samurai).
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Mon language
The Mon language (ဘာသာ မန်; မွန်ဘာသာ) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Mon people, who live in Myanmar and Thailand.
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Mon people
The Mon (မောန် or မည်; မွန်လူမျိုး,; មន, มอญ) are an ethnic group from Myanmar living mostly in Mon State, Bago Region, the Irrawaddy Delta and along the southern border of Thailand and Myanmar.
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Mon State
Mon State (မွန်ပြည်နယ်,; တွဵုရးဍုၚ်မန်၊ ရးမညဒေသ) is an administrative division of Myanmar.
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Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms
The Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms or more briefly known as Mont-Ford Reforms were reforms introduced by the British colonial government in India to introduce self-governing institutions gradually to India.
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Mount Zwegabin
Mount Zwekabin (Kwekabaw) (Phlone:; ဇွဲကပင်တောင်) is mountain in Myanmar.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.
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Ne Win
Ne Win (နေဝင်း; 10 July 1910, or 14 or 24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002), sometimes known honorifically as U Ne Win was a Burmese politician and military commander.
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Neck ring
Neck rings, or neck-rings, are any form of stiff jewellery worn as an ornament around the neck of an individual, as opposed to a loose necklace.
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Non-governmental organization
Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.
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Pa'O language
Pa'o is a Karen language spoken by a million Pa'o in Burma.
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Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan
Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan (ဖဒိုမန်းရှာလာဖန်း; July 5, 1943 – February 14, 2008) was the secretary general of the Karen National Union (KNU), an insurgent group in Myanmar.
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Paku Divinity School
The Paku Divinity School is a Baptist Christian Bible school in Taungoo, Bago Division, Myanmar.
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Panglong Conference
The Panglong Conference (ပင်လုံစာချုပ်), held in February 1947, was an historic meeting that took place at Panglong in the Shan States in Burma between the Shan, Kachin and Chin ethnic minority leaders and Aung San, head of the interim Burmese government.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house.
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Public holidays in Myanmar
Several public holidays are observed in Myanmar.
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Punna
(Sanskrit Purna), was an arhat and one of the ten principal disciples of Gautama Buddha.
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Pwo Karen languages
The Pwo Karen languages are the second largest group of the Karen languages.
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Rakhine people
The Rakhine people (ရခိုင်လူမျိုး, Rakhine pronunciation;; formerly Arakanese) are an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma) forming the majority along the coastal region of present-day Rakhine State (formerly officially called Arakan).
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Rambo (2008 film)
Rambo (also known as John Rambo or Rambo IV) is a 2008 American independent action film directed, co-written by and starring Sylvester Stallone reprising his iconic role as Vietnam veteran John Rambo.
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Red Karen language
Red Karen or Karenni, known in Burmese as Kayah, is a Karen dialect continuum spoken by over half a million Kayah people (Red Karen) in Burma.
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Refugee
A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely (for more detail see legal definition).
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Refugee camp
A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations.
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Reginald Craddock
Sir Reginald Henry Craddock, (11 March 1864 – 10 February 1937) was a British government and colonial official who served as the governor of Burma and chairman of the Indian constitutional reforms committee, and later became a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP).
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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S'gaw Karen language
S'gaw (စှီၤ/ကညီကျိာ်), Sgaw Karen or Sgaw Kayin, commonly known as Karen is a language spoken chiefly by the Sgaw Karen people in Myanmar and Thailand.
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Salween River
The Salween, known in China as the Nu River, is a river about long that flows from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia.
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Saw Ba U Gyi
Saw Ba U Gyi (စီၤဘၣ်အူကၠံ, စောဘဦးကြီး; 1905 – 12 August 1950) was the first President of the Karen National Union.
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Schools of Buddhism
The Schools of Buddhism are the various institutional and doctrinal divisions of Buddhism that have existed from ancient times up to the present.
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Self-governance
Self-governance, self-government, or autonomy, is an abstract concept that applies to several scales of organization.
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.
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Shan people
The Shan (တႆး;, ရှမ်းလူမျိုး;; ไทใหญ่ or ฉาน) are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia.
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Shan State
Shan State (Burmese: ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်,; Shan: မိူင်းတႆး) is a state of Myanmar.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
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Sino-Tibetan languages
The Sino-Tibetan languages, in a few sources also known as Trans-Himalayan, are a family of more than 400 languages spoken in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
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State Peace and Development Council
The State Peace and Development Council (နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ; abbreviated to SPDC or) was the official name of the military government of Burma, which seized power under the rule of Saw Maung in 1988.
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Subject–object–verb
In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order.
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Subject–verb–object
In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third.
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Suzuki Keiji
was a Japanese army intelligence officer during the Second World War.
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Tai languages
The Tai or Zhuang–Tai languages (ภาษาไท or ภาษาไต, transliteration: or) are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family.
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Tak Province
Tak (ตาก) is one of the western provinces (changwat) of Thailand.
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Tanintharyi Region
Tanintharyi Region (တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,; Mon: or; Tanah Sari; formerly Tenasserim Division and subsequently Tanintharyi Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, covering the long narrow southern part of the country on the Kra Isthmus.
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Tha Byu
Tha Byu (c.1778 – 9 September 1840) was the first Karen Christian and a notable evangelist to the Karen.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Theravada
Theravāda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pāli Canon as its doctrinal core.
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Tibeto-Burman languages
The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the highlands of Southeast Asia as well as certain parts of East Asia and South Asia.
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U Nu
Nu (နု;; 25 May 1907 – 14 February 1995), known honorifically as U Nu (ဦးနု) or Thakin Nu, was a leading Burmese statesman, politician, nationalist, and political figure of the 20th century.
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Umbrella term
An umbrella term is a word or phrase that covers a wide range of concepts belonging to a common category.
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Union Karen League
The Union Karen League was a political party in Burma led by Win Maung.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.
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Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter.
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Voice of America
Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcast source that serves as the United States federal government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting.
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Western Pwo language
Western Pwo, or Delta Pwo, is a Karen language of Burma.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
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Yangon
Yangon (ရန်ကုန်မြို့, MLCTS rankun mrui,; formerly known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") was the capital of the Yangon Region of Myanmar, also known as Burma.
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Zoya Phan
Zoya Phan (born 27 October 1980) is a political activist from Burma of Karen descent.
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8888 Uprising
The 8888 Nationwide Popular Pro-Democracy Protests (MLCTS: hrac le: lum), also known as the 8-8-88 Uprisings, or the People Power Uprising,Yawnghwe (1995), pp.
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Karen (ethnic group), Karen (people), Karen ethnic group, Karens, Kariang, Kayin people, Phlou Karen people, Phlou people, Ploan, Pwo Karen people, The Karen, กะเหรี่ยง.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_people
