Obama uses both ‘Burma’ and ‘Myanmar’ during trip
Posted: November 20, 2012 at 4:51 a.m.
Officially at least, America still calls this Southeast Asian nation Burma, the favored appellation of dissidents and pro-democracy activists who opposed the former military junta’s move to summarily change its name 23 years ago.
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