Comment: Burma or Myanmar?Ko Ko Oo

ASIEN – Nr. 61 (1996) pp. 80–83

In the German magazine, ASIEN (No. 58 of January 1996), Annemarie Esche wrote a „research note“. In support of her article that the country hitherto known as Burma should now be called Myanmar, she has researched into historical origins, „where and by which persons and in which connection the word Burma has been used“, and „whether the use of the words Burma and/or Myanmar is a question of the Myanmar people or not“. There is another very important reason that she has failed to address, and that is, why?