Not long out of Eton, he opts for the Imperial Police over university, and in 1922 ships out to Burma, full of romantic notions acquired from Kipling. Orwell ends up serving there for a little ...

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it ...

In Shooting an Elephant (1936) the English essayist and novelist George Orwell described working as a sub-divisional imperial police officer in Moulmein, lower Burma (Myanmar): “I was hated by ...