Posts Tagged ‘World War II’
February 25, 2012


Indians had given their lives in 1944 which liberated Burma, Malaysia and Singapore by cutting off the HEAD OF JAPANESE ARMY. Other three countries need to do an easier job killing the retreating demoralised Japanese army
At the KOHIMA WAR CEMETERY in Imphal, Commemorating the memories of the British and Indian (mostly Nepal and Punjabi) soldiers who died: “FOR YOUR TOMORROW WE GAVE OUR TODAY….”
Yes a lot of them give their lives to protect India and to liberalize Burma, Malaysia, and Singapore. Retreated badly shaped Japanese soldiers were attacked by Burmese Revolutionary Forces.
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Tags:British Indian Army, Burma, Cemetery, Imperial Japanese Army, Imphal, India, Kohima, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, United States, World War II
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September 16, 2011

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Source: Stilwell Road: Burma’s Stilwell Road Revive
It was a road some said couldn’t be built. Most of the men ordered to make it happen were African American soldiers sorted into Army units by the color of their skin.
As World War II raged, they labored day and night in the jungles of Burma, sometimes halfway up 10,000-foot mountains, drenched by 140 inches of rain in the five-month monsoon season. They spanned raging rivers and pushed through swamps thick with bloodsucking leeches and swarms of biting mites and mosquitoes that spread typhus and malaria.
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Tags:Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Democratic Voice of Burma, Japanese Imperial Army, Ledo Road, Los Angeles Times, Winston Churchill, World War II
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September 3, 2011
Source: DVB Democractic Voice of Burma – Govt reaffirms policy of racial profiling by By Joseph Allchin
Oic. Khutupalong Rohingya refugee camp,
Bangladesh (Joseph Allchin)
The Immigration Minister was chosen to answer a question in parliament brought by U Zarad Rawmam aka U Htay Win of Arakan constituency seven, in which he enquired about why “indigenous Rakhine Muslims” still had their freedom of movement curtailed by having to apply to the military’s border force, Nasaka, to move between towns. Failing to do so can result in jail time as a Muslim National League for Democracy (NLD) member found out near Mandalay.
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Tags:Asia, Bangladesh, Burma, Identity document, International nongovernmental organization, Islam in Burma, Muslim, Myanmar, Rakhine State, Rohingya people, World War II
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November 12, 2010
Source_MKini: Patriotism beyond the military by Josh Hong
In the feudal era, soldiers played a pivotal role in territorial expansion for kings and emperors, to whom they swore their allegiance. The Treaty of Westphalia, signed in 1648, defined kingdoms by their rite of self-sovereignty and provided the rudimentary framework for nation-states. It also made it possible for the military to place greater loyalty on the state and the constitution rather than the ruler.
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Tags:British Empire, Chiang Kai-shek, Han Dynasty, Jiang Baili, Joseph Goebbels, Morris Janowitz, United States, World War II
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