TNPSC Thervupettagam

Myanmar coup 3.0

February 8 , 2021 1297 days 783 0
  • The Myanmar military grabbed power in a coup on February 1.
  • This is the third time in the nation’s history since its independence from British rule in 1948.
  • In 1962, the military took over from a civilian government for the first time.
  • That coup amended the official name in 1974 to the ‘Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma’.
  • Then in 1988, Myanmar’s armed forces again took power in the country.
  • This time it reversed the official name to ‘Union of Burma’.
  • But after one year, the ruler of that time adopted a law that replaced Burma with Myanmar.
  • It made the country the ‘Union of Myanmar’.

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