Comments by "belstar" (@belstar1128) on "MYANMAR | Een overwinning van de rebellen?" video.

my dad travelled in south east asia since 1989 and visited burma a bunch of times in the 90s and 2000s. he said most of the countries had improved a lot between 1989 and 2007. but 2007 was the last time he went to Burma since its too dangerous for a old man like him and you need to be in shape to handle traveling there as a foreigner since they don't have great health care and you need to walk a lot. but he still travels in other parts of south east Asia like Laos and Vietnam and is now mostly focussed on Cambodia. and he says it has become very peaceful and may even become a first world country in the near future. but Burma had not improved much between the 80s and 2007 according to him at least .the last time he was there he also said he was chased by secret agents in 2007. i know they had a democratic period for 10 years between 2011 and 2021 but the army was out of control and did a coup .and even in the democratic period the wars continued. i guess the only hope is to disband the army and rebuild it and split off the non Burmese speaking regions with a population of over 1 million into their own countries . even in democracy these people will want independence
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@Urlocallordandsavior really ? i have not been there in a long time but Bangkok used to be way more advanced than any other place in the region .when i went to bangkok in the early 2000s it was rough but you had modern things like video games. phnom penh looked like 1930 back then not a single video game or computer in the entire country. even tvs were rare
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@zinny999 yea but that was a very long time ago. and let's be honest it was more of a a case of most Asian countries being very poor back then. and Burma falling behind and having bad luck. Cambodia had a leader that went out of his way to ruin the country. but now they are rebuilding everything and they are able to do that because there is finally peace. in Burma they couldn't fix their old issues. since the rebels are too strong to be defeated but not strong enough to win the war. so they just keep fighting forever. and in Burma the army became the government. since it's in an endless state of war and they won't give up their power. but the army is not good at running a country. They only know how to fight.
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