I did a check to see if this POD has been done before. There was a thread on the topic, but there were no responses, so I'm going to go ahead to post this anyway.
Several "what if" questions popped into my mind during history lecture today as the lecturer went through the history of Burma and this was one of them.
What if the assassin's bullet that felled Aung San in 1947 missed? What would Burma look like today with his survival?
For one, I could foresee either a stable, unified Burma or a slightly balkanised but still stable place. IIRC, Aung San promised the Karens and a few other indigenous minority groups autonomy with the option to break away from Burma and form a seperate state in the 1950s. Me thinks that it would either encourage the minorities to stay due to Aung San's potentially tolerationist policies or actually break away using their newfound autonomy.
So, good people of AH.com, what are your thoughts?
Several "what if" questions popped into my mind during history lecture today as the lecturer went through the history of Burma and this was one of them.
What if the assassin's bullet that felled Aung San in 1947 missed? What would Burma look like today with his survival?
For one, I could foresee either a stable, unified Burma or a slightly balkanised but still stable place. IIRC, Aung San promised the Karens and a few other indigenous minority groups autonomy with the option to break away from Burma and form a seperate state in the 1950s. Me thinks that it would either encourage the minorities to stay due to Aung San's potentially tolerationist policies or actually break away using their newfound autonomy.
So, good people of AH.com, what are your thoughts?