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Discussions:
There is more than one name for this country. Strong arguments exist for the use of both names as an article title; however, the most recent requested move discussion found that the article title should be at Myanmar. Burma redirects there.
RM, Burma → Myanmar, No consensus, 12 October 2011, discussion
RM, Burma → Myanmar, Not moved, 8 August 2012, discussion
MRV, Burma → Myanmar, Endorsed, 26 August 2012, discussion
RM, Burma → Myanmar, Moved, 7 August 2015, discussion
Older discussions:
RM, Myanmar → Myanmar (Burma), Not moved, 14 March 2006, discussion
RM, Myanmar → Burma, Moved, 26 September 2007, discussion
RM, Burma → Myanmar, Not moved, 21 January 2008, discussion
I noticed that the history section largely jumps from 2016 to 2020 without mentioning the Rohingya persecution in 2017, which seems a notable event that got a lot of international attention, at a minimum resulted in mass migration, etc. Is there a reason it wouldn't be appropriate to mention here? -KaJunl (talk) 08:32, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Further comment: I do see that the topic is presented within Government and politics> Human rights and internal conflicts> Genocide allegations and crimes against Rohingya people.
Given the international attention, demographic changes to the country, refugee crisis, etc., I am not sure it doesn't belong in "history" too.
However, even within the aforementioned section, the "2013 onwards" seems to have minimal commentary on the 2016-2017 period. At the beginning of the genocide allegations section, there is a "see also" link to "2016–17 Rohingya persecution in Myanmar" (which is not the current name of the linked article - I'd think we should link to the current name regardless rather than engaging in a separate debate) but those events aren't really mentioned much in the "2013 onwards" section of this article.
@KaJunl I fully agree with everything said here. The genocide of the Rohingya is far too notable and significant to be confined to only one small section of this article. I also noticed that the topic of Rohingya refugees is mentioned in Demographics> Ethnic groups, but it had no word of refugees past 1991. To rectify this, I added this sentence: "Since August 2017, an estimated 23,000-43,700 Rohingya have been killed in the ongoing Rohingya genocide, and another 730,000 have fled to Bangladesh.", with three added sources. (Hopefully it doesn't get reverted by some genocide denier, ugh.) Regarding your concern about the "see also" link, it appears as though someone thankfully changed it to "Rohingya genocide" to match the page title (unless you're the one who did that, in which case nice!!) Thank you for pointing all this out, by the way - it's really important stuff. Iamextremelygayokay (talk) 11:39, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]