CRIME IN BURMA
■ Burma's bad name for crime remains, according to official reports issued by the police recently. The report says: A committee was held in 1927 under the chairmanship of a learned Judge of the High Court to investigate the causes of the frequent murders which occur, in Burma, and^every attempt has been made to find *a remedy, but without, avail. The police can do nothing to prevent murder or grievous hurt cases —and the difference between the two in Burma is often merely fortuitous. The progress of civilisation may effect a reduction of this deplorable offence, but for some inexplicable reason offence's against the person have fhown a tendency to increase during the last twenty years, whilst offences against property show a decrease. The authorities have little doubt that in rural areas this is due to a feeling of unrest as a result of the wa.?'-:snin3 cf Government authority caurod lr; r a:zchievous propaganda.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 13
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156CRIME IN BURMA Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 13
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