Understanding the Ethnic Conflict in Burma

Many wars have been fought in our society. But from these wars, countries usually learn from their mistakes, which makes a better world for society. However, there have been many times when countries do not learn from these mistakes, which can cause a conflict. In the late 1800s the British started to explore Africa and Asia. In doing so, they colonized many nations. However, many people living in these colonies did not agree with the British and revolted. This led to the British granting independence to these countries. However, there were many times when the British government did not help these countries become independent. This has caused many countries to fail, because they were not ready for the challenges of independence. One country that became independent from the British was Burma. However, since there independence, they have been fighting one of the longest civil wars in the history of the world. In this paper, I will investigate, if the reason that the conflict in Burma is still happening, is because the British allowed them to become independence pre maturely, and the British did not help Burma get though the challenges of becoming a nations.

To understand how complicated the ethnic conflict in Burma is, it is important to take a look at the back round of this conflict. Burma is located in Southeast Asia. Its boarders Bangladesh, India, China, Laos and Thailand. It populates sixty million people, and has one of the largest populations in one country. Because there are so many people, there also are many religions. The country is made up of Buddhist, Muslims and Shiats. However, the route of the problem, is that fact that each religion lives in a certain area, and these areas do not get along with each other. This cau...

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...be come independent, they would be loyal to them. However, most of the people in Burma did not want to be come Christin. However, many people with in the Kran nation took the faith and converted to Christianity. In addition, there were many Christian Karen who changed their identity and thought that they were different from the other people in Burma. Because of this, they created the group the Karen National Union. Because the Karen people were the only group in Burma to convert to Christianity, they were favored by the British. The Karen People were given opportunities not available to the Burmese ethnic majority. There special treatment included military recruitment and seats in the new legislature. Because the Burman people were split as to whom would convert, it also cuased more tention between all the ethnic groups.( add more bad things about the British here)