Myanmar: Does History Shape Destiny?" (Dr. Thant Myint-U)- UN University Virtual Conversations

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On 20 October 2020, United Nations University hosted “Does History Shape Destiny? The Case of Myanmar”, a virtual conversation with Dr Thant Myint-U, Chairman of U Thant House and the Yangon Heritage Trust.
Myanmar has existed throughout its history in a variety of political configurations, with each contributing to the nature of the country we know today. The architecturally and culturally renowned Pagan Kingdom that began over a millennium ago established the Bamar ethnic group as the region’s dominant people. The Toungoo Empire in the 16th Century, the largest ever South-East Asia witnessed, absorbed many peripheral lands and their ethnically diverse inhabitants. Colonial rule three centuries later further exacerbated ethnic differences within, albeit under the British and Anglo-Burmese dominance. The 1947 Panglong Agreement then enabled the establishment of the independent Union of Burma, but fissures quickly surfaced, igniting internal conflict along political and ethnic lines that continue into the modern-day, culminating with the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya recently.
Is history truly inescapable? Do the Myanmar elections in November, the second openly contested elections in almost three decades, present a glimmer of hope? What about the 21st Century Panglong Conferences - the national reconciliation and peace process whose fourth and most recent iteration took place in August?
Dr Thant Myint-U joined UNU Rector David M. Malone to discuss the future of Myanmar and to explore how destiny may escape history’s grievances.

[@rubysein]

Excellent Dr. Thant Myint U..I am proud of you..Thanks and appreciated.

[@ashleyemmerton2050]

Such a valuable and eloquently explained insight into the past and potential future of Myanmar. Thank you Dr. Thant Myint-U!

[@786swe]

Ashley E
Now, I ask if this lackey (Thant Myint-U) could have predicted what is going on in Burma since Fen 2, 2021?

[@Lilly-wd9de]

Thank you so much Dr. Thant Myint-U and UNU....

[@channyein9751]

I'm from Myanmar (formerly Known as Burma)

[@anh265]

Thank you so much Dr Thant

[@manuelvaldehuesa715]

Your public presence impresses. Try and keep in practice. Congratulations!

[@KoAungSharing]

You are one of the smartest Myanmar Speaker. I am proud of you Dr. Thant Myint- U. Are you a grandchild of U Thant who was our first UN Chairman from Myanmar?

[@khantryder6893]

He is.

[@786swe]

Augustine
Now, I ask if this lackey (Thant Myint-U) could have predicted what is going on in Burma since Fen 2, 2021?

[@786swe]

@@khantryder6893
Now, I ask if this lackey (Thant Myint-U) could have predicted what is going on in Burma since Fen 2, 2021?

[@herochannel4836]

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကိုလြတ္ေပးဖို႔ေျပာဆိုေနတာပါမင္းေအာင္လိူင္ကိုဖမ္းဖို႔r2pလြတ္ဖို႔အေရးေဆြးေႏြးၾကတယ္

[@user-pr8zf9cu3p]

WAW

[@anh265]

ဏဠဘိမ္းဒုံး ဏဂ်ီးဆိန္ ထက္ E တတ္သူမ်ား မ်ားစြာ႐ွိ ၾကည့္ထား စုံလုံးကန္း ဏဘိတ္မ်ား

[@gazwa-e-islam2716]

Myanmar is not a "poor" country, it is simply "poorly governed"..

[@gazwa-e-islam2716]

There is no rohingya "crisis" in Myanmar for which it needs to apologise.
The real "crisis", ney mayhem that was inflicted on a hapless peaceful indigenous people by the aggressive religionists of peace who had immigrated less than a century ago and who began to enforce their brutal ways of settling in the country.

[@786swe]

Now, I ask if this lackey (Thant Myint-U) could have predicted what is going on in Burma since Fen 2, 2021?