Abolishing Dictatorship In Myanmar

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Abolishing Dictatorship in Myanmar Myanmar is a country that is ruled by a dictator. Myanmar used to be called Burma. There are many people living in struggles and poverty, even worst people are being force to do hard labor. Dictatorship in Burma should be abolished because there is genocide, there’s no freedom, and no peace. There are people being killed by the Burmese government’s soldiers because of dictatorship. The Burmese soldiers are killing many different groups of people, one of the largest group that are being killed are the Karen (Ka-ran) people, my people! The Burmese soldiers were destroying our culture, our history along with us. They’ve destroyed over thousands of our village and the Karen people that live there. To surrender was not an option for my people so we fought back against the Burmese government and their soldiers. The wars between the Burmese and the Karen have been going on for over 60 years. People outside the country don’t know about what’s going on in here because the Burmese government tried to hide it so that no one will come to help us. Now that the silence is broken we hope that help will come to set us free. My people have been fighting for freedom for over hundreds of years. After the British ruled we thought that we would be free. A year after Burma got independent from the British in 1948; war broke out between the Karen and the Burmese in 1949. The British promise the Karen that they would be free and have their own country, but the promise was never for fill and was broken. Instead the British give the Burmese all the power and ruled the country. The Karen didn’t want to be ruled by the Burmese because they didn’t give them equality and they want to be superior over all the seven different groups of people that live in that country. The reason the Burmese tried to wipe out the Karen people is
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