The Rough Guide does not cover Burma at all, because the pro-democracy movement has called for a tourism boycott. The same goes for Rangoon, people in general are more familiar with this name than Yangon.īut look in a Lonely Planet guidebook to Asia and the country can be found listed after Mongolia, not Brunei. It's general practice at the BBC to refer to the country as Burma, and the BBC News website says this is because most of its audience is familiar with that name rather than Myanmar.
Internationally, both names are recognised." The name change is a form of censorship.' If Burmese people are writing for publication, they use 'Myanmar. The change was recognised by the United Nations, and by countries such as France and Japan, but not by the United States and the UK.Ī statement by the Foreign Office says: "Burma's democracy movement prefers the form 'Burma' because they do not accept the legitimacy of the unelected military regime to change the official name of the country. Myanmar is the literary form, which is ceremonial and official and reeks of government.
The Adaptation of Expression Law also introduced English language names for other towns, some of which were not ethnically Burmese. Taking direct orders from the Burmese military, Soe Aung, the Burmese military attach to the UK, is free to roam the streets of the UK, representing a threat. But the UK doesn't recognise the legitimacy of the regime that changed the name
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