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Hand-colored studio portrait of a woman in Burma, ca. 1910. Myanmar Photo Archive (MPA; Burmese: မြန်မာဓာတ်ပုံမော်ကွန်းသည်, romanized: myanmardharatpone mawkwann sai) is both a physical archive of photographs taken between 1889 and 1995 in Myanmar (Burma), and a public awareness project of the country's visual culture.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. Ground forces branch of the armed forces of Myanmar "Burmese Army" redirects here. For other uses, see Burma Army (disambiguation). Myanmar Army တပ်မတော် (ကြည်း) (Burmese) lit. ' Tatmadaw (Kyi) ' 'Armed Forces (Army)' Emblem of the Myanmar Army [a] Founded 1945 ...
People's Liberation Army: PLA 2021 Unknown Armed wing of the Communist Party of Burma: The Communist Party of Burma rearmed itself and announced the creation of its new armed wing, the People's Liberation Army, in late 2021. [58] [59] People's Liberation Army of Manipur: PLAM 1978 3,800 (2008) Manipur
Reports that soldiers of Myanmar’s military government last week carried out a massacre of more than 30 civilians in a village in central Myanmar were supported Monday in interviews with a local ...
Diary of a Japanese Military Comfort Station Manager is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese "comfort stations", where the Japanese military trafficked women and girls into sexual slavery, in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.
In 1946, a British military court tried Seigi and 13 other soldiers for participating in the massacre. Each of them were tried on two counts: Participating in the massacre of the villagers; Participating in the beating, torture, wounding, and other maltreatment of the villagers; Seigi also faced a third charge for kidnapping the women.
The People's Defence Force [a] is the armed wing of the National Unity Government (NUG) in Myanmar.The armed wing was formed by the NUG from youths and pro-democracy activists on 5 May 2021 in response to the coup d'état that occurred on 1 February 2021 that put the military junta and their armed wing the Tatmadaw in power. [15]
The Burma National Army and the Arakan National Army fought with the Japanese from 1942–44, but switched allegiance to the Allied side in 1945. [citation needed] Following World War II, General Aung San negotiated the Panglong Agreement with ethnic leaders that guaranteed the independence of Burma as a unified state. In 1947, Aung San became ...