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Key Historical Events. A treaty establishing Burma’s independence from the UK was signed in London on 17 Oct. 1947. For the history of Burma’s connexion with Great Britain see The Statesman’s Year-Book, 1950, p. 836. The Union of Burma came formally into existence on 4 Jan. 1948 and became the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma in 1974. On 18 Sept. 1988, the Armed Forces seized power and set up a State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). On 19 June 1989 the government changed the official name of the country in English to the Union of Myanmar.
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Union of Myanmar, Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development. Review of the Financial, Economic and Social Conditions. Annual. -Statistical Yearbook
Herbert, P., Burma [bibliography], Santa Barbara and Oxford, 1991
Lintner, B., Outrage: Burma’s Struggle for Democracy. 2nd ed. London, 1990
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Smith, M., Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. London, 1991
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Taylor, R. H., The State in Burma. London, 1988
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Hunter, B. (1996). Burma. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271258_35
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