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- One of the main problems on the Myanmar and Thailand issue have been the continuous raids of the Myanmar military into Thailand in the past.

The last serious Myanmar and Thailand conflict was in 1767 when the Myanmar's invaded Thailand and conquered Ayutthaya the then capital of Thailand. They looted Ayutthaya and took plenty of materials, religious items and people with them on the way back including bronze artifacts which the Thais took with them during one of their raids into Cambodia, then Khmer. This artifacts are still visible at the Mahamuni temple at Mandalay Myanmar.

But this was not the only invasion of the Myanmar's into Thailand, there where many more, among them the siege of Phuket in 1785 and again skirmishes in the resent past. However in the resent past it was mainly to track down Karen rebels who fled to Thailand after they launched attacks on the Myanmar military, after this attacks all this clever NGO and UN people were screaming the Myanmar military is no good.

Actually what do this "clever" foreigners thinking will happen when the military get under attack? naturally they retaliate, but under this strange "western philosophy" it is allowed when the Karen rebels kill the Myanmar military but it is strongly condemned when the Myanmar's defend themselves and retaliated. This is the typical strange western way of handling things, means the attacker is right and anyone who resists attacks is no good. Actually all this stuff happens also everyday in the EU, e.g. there is a burglary into a shopping mall and they call the police, now the police come and go after the crook who resist, the police guy shot this bastard in self defense and after they put the police man before the law court because he resisted

the crook and the crook got killed or wounded, strange world isn't it? It will finally lead to degeneration. 

The Thailand Myanmar border is a very difficult boundary since at most border crossing the Myanmar's only allow foreigners come in and stay within the city boundary of that crossing, e.g. Three Pagoda Pass west of Kanchanaburi, Kawthaung, when coming from Ranong Thailand, Myawaddy (Myanmar) - Mae Sot (Thailand) etc.

If all this problems with the border crossings in Myanmar wouldn't be the Myanmar people of this areas would earn lots of money by tourism since the countryside at the Myanmar side is very attractive. This leads to the rather strange configuration of the Myanmar and Thailand border crossing at the Singkhorn Pass south of Hua Hin where a excellent road leads to the border crossing. On the Thai side is a huge new building, a small lake, a beautiful scenery and a huge market, but at the Myanmar side the road is just a simple dirt road and no one can cross. Only some Myanmar people cross this Myanmar Thailand border and open their small stalls to sell Myanmar orchids, unfortunately almost all the orchids are infected with fungi, so its better not to touch at all.

Another of that Myanmar and Thailand problem area is further south. Between the Thai city of Chumphon and Ranong is the so called Isthmus of Kra, the Myanmar Thai border runs along this small waterway. The catch is 

since decades the governments of Thailand and Myanmar suggest to dig a channel since here is the most narrow piece of land between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, but because of the political instability in Myanmar no one will finance this. This channel would short cut the ship routes from Europe to East Asia by several thousand kilometers.

Since about two thousand years or more traders from the west offloaded their goods here, loaded them onto the back of elephants and the

elephant ride got on the way to Ayutthaya the former capital of Thailand north of today Bangkok and elsewhere in Siam the old name of Thailand.

Myanmar and Thai People have something else in common, that is Theravada Buddhism which arrived from Sri Lanka the former Ceylon. One of the results is beautiful pagodas at Thailand and Myanmar.

Even 'Pyu' coins from the old kingdom of Sriksetra, today Pyay have been found in the Mon kingdom of Dvaravati, today Thailand. Most

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