Burma Myanmar timeline

1. BURMA MYANMAR
1826 – A Frenchman named G E Limouzin who moved to Burma just after British
annexation of lower Burma in 1826. (Secret histories Burma ©2004 UK Emma
Larkin).
1885 – British colonial Burma, Mandalay in 1885 was declared part of the British
empire. The last Burmese monarch, King Thibaw, reigned in Mandlay. (Secret
histories Burma ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).
1920s – By the time George Orwell arrived in Burma in the early 1920s. The Delta
was leading Burmese exports of over 3 million tons of rice. Half the worlds supply.
Burma 2004 exports only 20,000 tons of rice. (Secret histories Burma ©2004 UK
Emma Larkin).
1920s – 90 British officers and 13,000 Burmese police oversaw the land of 13 million
people. Corruption was rampant among magistrates, and criminals were seldom
convicted. (Secret histories Burma ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).
1920s – George Orwell lived in Burma in the 1920s, as an officer in the imperial
police force of the British empire. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. (Secret
histories Burma ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).
1935 – George Orwell Burmese days Gollance London UK.
1948 – Aung San was assassinated months before independence from the UK in 1948.
His daughter Aung San Suu Kyi was two years old. (Secret histories Burma ©2004
UK Emma Larkin).
1948 – Burma became independent from the UK. A military dictator sealed off the
country to Socialism. (Secret histories Burma ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).
31 July 1956 – The Deseret news. Burma plays down China troop reports. Rangoon
UP. Chinese troops and border with Burma.
1962 – Abid is Arabic for slaves. A succession of military regimes ruled Burma since
Ne Win seized power in a coup in 1962. (This immoral trade C Cox J Marks ©2006
UK).
1962-2002 – Burma’s experiment with Socialism began in 1962 when the leader of
the army Ne Win seized power. He set up a revolutionary council. Ne Win died in
December 2002 aged 91 in his villa in Rangoon. (Secret histories Burma ©2004 UK
Emma Larkin).
8 July 1975 – An earthquake struck Pagan (Bagan) and destroyed many monuments
in Burma. (Timeline internet).
Late 1980s – A $2 million reward US was offered for Khun Sa capture. (31 Oct 2007
Vancouver Sun Canada).

2. 1987 – Mary Anne Stanislaw. Kalagas, the wall hangings of south east Asia. Ainslei
California ISBN 0-9618-4450-7.
1989 – Drugs the US and Khun Sa by Francis W Belanger Thailand published
Worldcat database.
1989-2004 – High ranking generals and drug lords from Burmas we state were buying
up land and houses in Myanma. The heroin that paid for their retirements. After
Afghanistan Burma is the worlds largest producer of heroin. Much of the opium used
in heroin production is grown in Wa state northeast mountains. The business is … the
United Wa state army described by the US state dept as the world most heavily armed
narco traffickers. The government in Burma benefits from the illegal trade in drugs
1989.(Secret histories Burma ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).
1990-91 – General Khun Sa, a warlord in Burma who controlled 80% of the regions
opium trade. In 1990 he was indicted in the US on federal drug charges, but remained
a fugitive. In mid 1991 he had deposited about $300 million in BCCI. The accounts
were fed from Taiwan and Hong Kong.
1991 – Sex trafficking in Burma and Thailand.. Sex ezine slavery Trafficking of
Burmese women girls in brothels in Thailand (Internet).
1992 – Khun Sa his own story and his thoughts. Published in Thailand. Worldcat
database.
1 Oct 1999 – Burmese embassy seizure. Burmese dissidents seized the Burmese
embassy in Bangkok Thailand taking 89 people hostage including 1 US citizen.
11 2001 – Two Pakistani nuclear scientists under investigation by the US. Links to Al
Qaeda arrived in Burma in early November 2001.
2002 – The Thailand based Shan human rights foundation filed a report saying that
the Myanmar government military force raped at least 625 girls and women in Shan
states from 1996-2001 (Timeline internet).
March 2002 – Rahul Bedi. Nuclear scientists in Myanmar. Janes intel review vol 14
no 3.
2004 – Under British rule Christian missionaries were able to preach in Burma. In
2004 there were 2.2 million Christians 5% of the population..In 2004 missionary
Christians were forbidden from entering Burma. (Secret histories Burma ©2004 UK
Emma Larkin).
2004 – Secret histories Burma. Emma Larkin (c)2004 UK John Murray publishers
ISBN 0-7195-5695-3.
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19 May 2004 – A cyclone swept through western Myanmar. More than 140 people
dead or missing about 18,000 people homeless. (AP28 May 2004).

3. 29 Nov 2006 – Red cross closing field offices in Myanmar. Up to 1,000 political
prisoners being held. (Wed 29 Nov 2006 1.15am 9645khz VOA).
12 Feb 2007 – A report issued by a human rights group accused Myanmar’s military
of killing, raping and torturing ethnic Karen women over the past 25 years. (AP 12
Feb 2007).
July 2007 – The Irrawaddy. Burma plays nuclear card 10 megawatt nuclear reactor
atomic energy agency Rosaton by Aung Zaw.
31 Oct 2007 – Warlords death evokes CIAs golden days in the heroin trade. Death of
Burmese warlord Khun Sa. The Vancouver sun Canada.
May 2008 – Cyclone Nargis devastated large parts of Burma, killing about 130,000
people, millions of people were affected. (Timeline internet).
3 May 2008 – A tropical cyclone slammed into Myanmar city of Yangon. About
138,000 people died or went missing. A deadly storm. (AP 4 May 2008).
2011 – The hunt for Khun Sa drug lord of the golden triangle Ron Felber Waterville
OR Trine day Worldcat database.