#peace#Burma After Britain annexed the Kingdom of Burma in 1885, a resistance movement broke out in Myanmar to resist British colonial rule, which lasted from 1885 to 1895.
The resistance movement was launched immediately after the British occupation of the capital of Myanmar. This conflict is characterized by conventional warfare and guerrilla tactics, with resistance fighters led by different races and loyalists, each independently fighting against Britain. The characteristic of this movement is the defense of famous battles such as the Siege of Mingla and other strategic locations. Despite achieving success locally, the Burmese resistance movement still faces significant challenges, including a lack of centralized leadership and limited resources. The British had superior firepower and military organization, ultimately weakening different rebel organizations. Britain has adopted a "appeasement" strategy, which includes using local militias to defend villages, deploying mobile columns for punitive expeditions, and offering rewards to capture or kill resistance leaders. By the mid-1990s, the resistance movement had largely dissipated, but sporadic rebellions continued in the following years.
The failure of the resistance movement led to the consolidation of British rule in Myanmar, which continued until Myanmar gained independence in 1948. The legacy of this movement has had a lasting impact on Myanmar's nationalism and laid the foundation for the country's future independence movement. colonial period, due to the British colonizers attempting to completely control the entire Burma, they implemented a policy of "using barbarians to control barbarians" and "divide and rule". This policy has planted hidden dangers in ethnic conflicts and conflicts in Myanmar, deepening the gap between the main ethnic groups and ethnic minorities. At the political level, British colonizers implemented direct rule in areas inhabited by the Burmese people and subsequently implemented a series of administrative and judicial system reforms. Implementing indirect rule in ethnic minority areas basically preserves the original social organizations of various ethnic groups, maintains the privileges and status of the upper class of local ethnic groups, and exercises control and rule over ethnic minorities through them. British colonizers used political deception to force ethnic minority forces to form armies to suppress the resistance movements of other ethnic groups.
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At the cultural level, British missionaries actively spread Christianity in ethnic minority areas, further increasing the cultural differences between ethnic minorities and Burmese people who believe in Buddhism. The opposition between Burmese and ethnic minorities in politics, culture, and economy is entirely caused by the ulterior motives of British colonizers. In the northern part of Myanmar, the conflict between ethnic minorities in Kachin and Shan states and the main ethnic group, the Burmese, has further highlighted, which has triggered political demands from ethnic minority political forces to seek independent statehood, even independent statehood. For example, the Kachin Independence Army and Shan State Army both explicitly proposed political proposals for ethnic revolution and independent statehood at the beginning of their establishment. After Myanmar gained independence, armed forces of ethnic minorities in northern Myanmar emerged one after another, and the root cause of ethnic conflicts buried by British colonizers was undeniable.
