From The Times.co.za :

Calling Burma Myanmar is insulting to the Burmese
	Published:Oct 07, 2007
I write on behalf of the Free Burma Campaign (SA) . Your editorial “Zimbabwe of the East” (September 30), is welcome. However, you call Burma “Myanmar” and add “or Burma as the UK and US insist on calling it”, as if it is just the UK and US being plain difficult. Imagine if a German went around insisting that people who are communicating in English use “Deutschland” instead of Germany, or a Japanese person insisted on “Nippon”. Many people would find it silly, if not downright politically obnoxious. Likewise the insistence of Burma’s military junta on “Myanmar” shows their jingoism. In contrast, Burma is the name used by the worldwide campaign to free the country from the junta’s brutal and inept rule. Burma was a democracy from independence in 1948 until the military coup of 1962. It is the illegitimate junta that has changed its name. In 1990 the junta held elections to legitimise its rule. This backfired as the National League for Democracy won by a landslide. The stunned generals refused to recognise the results. So to use Burma instead of Myanmar is to respect the democratic expression of Burma’s people. — David P Kramer, by e-mail