<span>John Locke was a Western Philosopher who gave the theory of “Natural
Rights” by which he meant that everyone has three natural rights which are the
right to life, liberty and property, he lived from 1632 to 1704. The synonymous
term for this is “Universal Rights” according to enlightenment philosophers.</span>
<span>Before Britain colonised it, Burma was itself an expansionist nation. It was, in fact, Burma's conquest of Arakan and Assam in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries that brought Burma to the borders of India and thus face to face with the British Empire.</span>
