Discussing the Forgotten Civil War in Myanmar 🇲🇲
(This is the current of flag of Myanmar 🇲🇲, AKA Burma 🇲🇲. It was adopted in 2010, and has sort of become unpopular ever since the 2021 coup. Anti-coup protesters 🪧 often waved the two old flags, the red and blue ones, to show their opposition to the junta, since this yellow, green, and red flag 🇲🇲 has become so synonymous with the military. So has the name, Myanmar. After all, it was the military that renamed the country to Myanmar in 1989, and changed the flag to the current one 🇲🇲 in 2010. A lot of the anti-junta activists and rebels want the name of the country to be changed back to Burma, and want the one of the old flags to be readopted. The same goes for the name of the capital city. It used to be called Rangoon, but the military changed the name to Yangon. And ever the military seized back full control in 2021, there have been calls to change the name of the city back to Rangoon. Most want the first flag, the Union of Burma flag to be readopted, not the Socialist ...