Photo from BBC online report
The BBC reports an unexplained move by the military junta in Burma:
"Burma's confirmation that it was shifting its seat of government has left many analysts at a loss to explain the move..."
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Burma moved its capital from Rangoon to Pyinmana, a landlocked city that it will build from scratch. Pyinmana is more isolated from the outside world and has less developed (if none) infrastructure than Rangoon.
Speculation has ranged from a regime paranoid about being invaded by external forces to the same taking the advice of fortune-tellers. And according to inside information it will be named Nay Pyi Daw.
The world has yet to come to grip with a military junta overturning the result of a democratic election, imposing a dictatorship and changing the country and capital names to Myanmar and Yongong. The junta and name changes are, however, not recognized by rest of the free world.
Technorati tags: Burma, Myanmar, Current Affairs
2 comments:
You know what. "nay pyi daw" is a word used for "king's city" in Burmese kingdom era. that's why we found it funny.
and than shwe is always doing thing like that according to what fortune teller said.
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