language but a corrupted form of it 3) The oppositiion doesn't accept it 4) The US government continues to use the word Burma as the name of the country.
Many news organizations and goverments continue to use 'Burma' as a means to show that they do not support the tyrannical military regime that made the change;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Burma
The United Nations, of which Myanmar is a member, endorsed the name change five days after its announcement.[8] However, governments of many English speaking countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada still refer to the country as "Burma".[9] The United States government attributes its choice to support for the party deemed to have won the 1990 election, but been denied power by the junta. That party opposes the new name.
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It should be remembered that the regime did not change the official name of the country in Burmese, but merely changed the name of the country in English. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at first opposed the new name "Myanmar", pointing out the hypocritical justification of inclusiveness put forward by the regime. Opposition parties, although they oppose the English name "Myanmar", do not oppose the official Burmese name Myanma, and no opposition party is proposing to use the colloquial name Bama as the official name of the country.
When Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi requests that we change the name then I will change.
BTW the official English term for the people of Burma is still "Burmese".
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