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In the case of Côte d'Ivoire and Myanmar, well read individuals and others who pride themselves on being up to date and informed (and therefore especially susceptible to “PC-itis”) will use the new terms, but with a certain amount of distaste.
Likewise with Myanmar, the name now used-- at least in the non-U.S.-English-speaking world--for what used to be called Burma . The official name of the country in Burmese has, since independence from Britain, been Pyidaungsu Socialist Thammada Myanma Naingngandaw , so Myanmar, it seems, is simply Burmese for Burma . This is the same phenomenon as Côte d'Ivoire . But the current Myanmarese (do I venture where angels fear to tread by coining the adjective?)
The gunmen demanded that the Myanmar military regime release its political prisoners and start a dialogue with dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and that the parliament elected in 1990 be allowed to convene.
The editorial encouraged Asian governments to press Myanmar to break its stalemate.
The seizure last week of the Myanmar (Burma) Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, by pro-democracy protestors "achieved precious little to advance the cause of the hobbled pro-democracy movement in that benighted country," the Straits Times of Singapore said in an editorial.