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    Post-Independence: Self-Determination Unu

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    The Mon people sought self-determination after Burma gained independence in 1948 but were crushed by U Nu's government when they revolted. They remained a repressed group within Burma, rising up against the central government multiple times between 1962 and 1995 through groups like the New Mon State Party. A partially autonomous Mon state was created in 1974 but resistance continued until 1995 when the NMSP agreed to a ceasefire. The largest Mon refugee communities are now found in Thailand with smaller communities in several Western nations like the United States, Australia, and some European countries.

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    The Mon people sought self-determination after Burma gained independence in 1948 but were crushed by U Nu's government when they revolted. They remained a repressed group within Burma, rising up against the central government multiple times between 1962 and 1995 through groups like the New Mon State Party. A partially autonomous Mon state was created in 1974 but resistance continued until 1995 when the NMSP agreed to a ceasefire. The largest Mon refugee communities are now found in Thailand with smaller communities in several Western nations like the United States, Australia, and some European countries.

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    The Mon people sought self-determination after Burma gained independence in 1948 but were crushed by U Nu's government when they revolted. They remained a repressed group within Burma, rising up against the central government multiple times between 1962 and 1995 through groups like the New Mon State Party. A partially autonomous Mon state was created in 1974 but resistance continued until 1995 when the NMSP agreed to a ceasefire. The largest Mon refugee communities are now found in Thailand with smaller communities in several Western nations like the United States, Australia, and some European countries.

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    The Mon people sought self-determination after Burma gained independence in 1948 but were crushed by U Nu's government when they revolted. They remained a repressed group within Burma, rising up against the central government multiple times between 1962 and 1995 through groups like the New Mon State Party. A partially autonomous Mon state was created in 1974 but resistance continued until 1995 when the NMSP agreed to a ceasefire. The largest Mon refugee communities are now found in Thailand with smaller communities in several Western nations like the United States, Australia, and some European countries.

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    Post-independence[edit]

    The Mon soon became anti-colonialists and, following the grant of independence to Burma in 1948,
    they sought self-determination. U Nurefused them this and they rose in revolt to be crushed again.
    They have remained a repressed and defiant group in the country since then. They have risen in
    revolt against the central Burmese government on a number of occasions, initially under the Mon
    People's Front and from 1962 through the New Mon State Party. A partially autonomous Mon
    state, Monland, was created in 1974 covering Tenasserim, Pegu and Ayeyarwady River. Resistance
    continued until 1995 when NMSP and SLORC agreed a cease-fire and, in 1996, the Mon Unity
    League was founded.
    In 1947, Mon National Day was created to celebrate the ancient founding of Hanthawady, the last
    Mon Kingdom, which had its seat in Pegu. (It follows the full moon on the 11th month of the Mon
    lunar calendar, except in Phrapadaeng, Thailand, where it is celebrated at Songkran).
    The largest Mon refugee communities are currently in Thailand, with smaller communities in
    the United States (the largest community being in Fort Wayne, Indiana and the second largest
    being Akron, Ohio), Australia, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

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