Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of partition and religious strife in 1947. Since last January, 900,000 more have poured over the frontiers to escape a new wave of religious persecution. Last week still another mass migration was underway as thousands of India's newest dispossessed flocked home from neighboring Burma...
...grave. The new ruling will probably be of most help to bishops in the predominantly Buddhist countries of Asia, where burial is regarded as a revolting and disrespectful custom. Japanese Catholics have already drawn up a cremation rite, and it is expected that church leaders in India, Ceylon and Burma will eventually follow suit...
...Catholic Vietnamese." But pinned down as to whether they suffered "persecution," Phillips replied: "I would say no." He added that "they carried on a very effective public relations program in getting their story before the American people," and noted that they had been supported by fellow Buddhists in neutralist Burma and Ceylon and in Red China...
Likely to fall would be Burma, given its 1,370-mile frontier with Red China. Dictator Ne Win is plunging his country headlong into instant socialism, further dislocating a society racked by civil strife. In his two years in power, Ne Win has nationalized all banks, taken 70% of trade out of private hands. Two weeks ago, soldiers in battle dress invaded and seized more than 3,000 wholesale stores in Rangoon. Meanwhile, upwards of 2,500 political prisoners are behind bars-paradoxically including many Communists. Half a dozen insurgent guerrilla bands, two of them Communist, roam the hinterlands...
With the Indo-Chinese peninsula and Burma gone, the pressure southward would become increasingly hard to resist. The healthy, vigorous and anti-Communist Malaysian Federation, already under attack by Indonesia, would probably have to fight for its life. Indonesia itself would draw ever closer to the Communist camp. The Philippines would probably hold out but would be severely menaced...