for questions about claims based in Burma, or limited to Burma. Also known as Myanmar. A country in South-East Asia.
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Does this video portray Muslims being tortured?
Video shared from this source has the following caption.
هؤلاء مسلمو بورما يعذبون فقط لأنهم مسلمون ... من منكم يشعر بوجعهم ما عليه إلاّ محاولة نشر الفيديو على صفحات عالمية ربما تساعدهم ... و أدعوا لهم برطاجي جيم لصفحة Video Live
These Muslims of…
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Did Burmese typewriters contain an upside-down character, which subsequently became proper typewriter style?
I was reading about the Internet Archive's work to archive the materials of a famous New York City typewriter family:
http://blog.archive.org/2020/08/26/an-archive-of-a-different-type/
I was interested in reading more about this anecdote, but was…
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Does Burmese lack a word for "vagina"?
From Myanmar: women's fight against verbal taboo symbolises wider rights battle
In Myanmar there are no vaginas. Linguistically, at least, that part of the female body does not exist in Burmese – a lexical omission that highlights the intense…
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Does Myanmar deny medical care, humanitarian aid, education, and food to Rohingya?
From a New York Times opinion piece titled "I Saw a Genocide in Slow Motion" (various paragraphs, not necessarily continuous, are quoted; emphasis added):
Sometimes Myanmar uses guns and machetes for ethnic cleansing, and that’s how Sono Wara…
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Do Rohingyas speak in a Bengali dialect?
This page says they do.
Rohingyas are not Burmese. They called themselves as Rohingya. There
are no such people in Burmese history and census.
Rohingyas are in fact Bengali who speaks Bengali dialect, dress Bengali clothes and eat Bengali food…
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