BUFFALO, N.Y. — Mayor Byron Brown joined the local Burmese community for a Burmese flag raising ceremony on Saturday morning at Buffalo City Hall.
The ceremony happening at 10 a.m. in Niagara Square, and it recognized the advent of democracy in Burma 33 years ago this month. Mayor Brown spoke at the event.
The City of Buffalo is home to thousands of refugees from Burma, who have been resettled here after decades of political turmoil. The country is now known as Myanmar, but is still referred to as Burma by many of the eight major ethnic groups from the country.
Burma became a member of the United Nations in 1948 following independence from the United Kingdom.
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