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Taliban and Tatmadaw - two groups, two nations, one idea, one reign of terror

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Tatmadaw is the name of the official Armed Forces of Myanmar or Burma. Taliban is an insurgent group in Afghanistan. Both two of them appear very different from the moments they surfaced, with two groups ruling two nations far apart from each other, having two different religious ideologies, except both are Asians. Yet, their idea of how to govern their nations are characterised by fascinating similarities: terror, thirst for power, and brainwashing, year by year. To understand the Tatmadaw and the Taliban, one can't go without digging the root of the past the created these forces, renowned for being brutal and violent from every corner it can do with. Only by seeing the inner self have we really discovered why Tatmadaw and Taliban are so ruthlessly murderous, for both the innocents of Myanmar and Afghanistan. History We'll talk a bit. Tatmadaw was originally the " Burma Independence Army ", founded by the father of current detained Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, A...

The mirror of glorious past - the tragedy of the future

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  Myanmar, or you can say, Burma, is a country of every reflection on the mind of the people. Historically, the country is unique. And even in the modern era, it is still unique. It appears to be everything in your minds, like how I watched the movie "Beyond Rangoon". But it is also a story where power brought them might, and yet power also brought Myanmar, into tragedy... just like the current coup and protests... Glory of an imperial state History of Burma began with the migration of people from the mountains of Tibet and today's Yunnan to the plateau of Irrawaddy river. They first came to Burma in 11,000 BC, but it only became a civilisation from 2nd century BC onward. They established a series of city-states called Pyu, and ruled independently, not an organised structure. Because these city-states maintained limited contact outside between themselves, China and India, historian disagreed on how to interpret the Pyu-states' histories, as they all developed for them...