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title: '"Tatmadaw and the People in Eternal Unity": roadside billboard, Myanmar (photographed 2008)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/myanmar-tatmadaw-people-eternal-unity-billboard-2008/
description: A bilingual red roadside billboard in Burmese and English reads 'Tatmadaw and the people in eternal unity.
section: Collection
---

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# "Tatmadaw and the People in Eternal Unity": roadside billboard, Myanmar (photographed 2008)

A bilingual red roadside billboard in Burmese and English reads 'Tatmadaw and the people in eternal unity. Anyone attempting to divide them is our enemy.' The tell is the fusion of the armed forces with 'the people' in one body, so that criticism of the army or a split between them is classed as hostility, and the label 'our enemy' attached to whoever attempts it.

## Text on the object

Original (English and Burmese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[Burmese script line, not reliably read]
TATMADAW AND THE PEOPLE IN ETERNAL UNITY
ANYONE ATTEMPTING TO DIVIDE THEM IS OUR ENEMY
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The English lines are the board's own rendering and need no translation. The Burmese line above them is presumed to carry the same message but was not read.
```

Burmese line is marked unread rather than guessed; a fluent reader should supply it.

[← "People's Desire": roadside billboard, Myanmar (photographed 2008)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/myanmar-peoples-desire-roadside-billboard-2008/) ["미국놈 때려잡는 군사놀이 신나요": poster in a North Korean primary school (photographed 2008) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-primary-school-yankee-game-poster-2008/)

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