Weekly World Geography Update

For the week of 04/27-05/03

This week we learned about the the fighting in now Myanmar and the Buddhist connections to it. The country of Myanmar, formally Burma, is a strong buddhist country and was at one time a British colony. It is now an Oligarchy and the power have an army called Junta which keeps control over the country. The buddhist monks there, which play an enormous role in life of everyone, are protesting the government. Usually let go peacefully the government has crossed the line and killed many many monks and students for up rising to the government.