Original sentence: Governments such as the United States and Australia, which disapprove of the military regime, continue to call it Burma, and this is the name that Aung San Suu Kyi - seen by some as the elected leader of the country - uses.History of Asia.History of Southeast Asia.History of present-day nations and states.In 1989 the Burmese regime announced that the official name of the country was henceforth to be Myanmar, and the United Nations now uses that name.Myanmar has always been the name of the country in the Burmese language, whereas Burma has always been used in English.The regime conducted many fruitless wars against the Karens and Shans, against the Burmese Communists, and later against drug bosses such as Khun Sa.Under Ne Win, Burma became an isolated military dictatorship, in which the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSSP) imposed a version of socialism which soon reduced a prosperous country to poverty
Edited sentence: Governments such as the United States and Australia, which disapprove of the military regime, also continue to call it Burma.In 1989 the Burmese regime announced that the name of the country was henceforth to be Myanmar, and the United Nations now uses that name.The English name of the country is Burma, and this is the name that Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected leader of the country, uses.The regime conducted endless futile wars against the Karens and Shans, against the Burmese Communists, and later against drug bosses such as Khun Sa.This was not in fact a change of name, since Myanmar has always been the name of the country in the Burmese language.Under Ne Win Burma became an isolated military dictatorship, in which the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSSP) imposed a bizarre version of socialism which soon reduced a prosperous country to poverty