The Mon people, who descended from Proto-Austroasiatic people, are believed to have migrated from the Yangtze Kiang valley in Southern China to Southeast Asia between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE, along the Mekong, Salween, Sittaung, Irrawaddy, Ping and Chao Phaya rivers.

Mon, people living in the eastern delta region of Myanmar (Burma) and in west-central Thailand, numbering in the early 21st century somewhere between one and five million, though less than a third speak the Mon language.

The Mon have ever since become a people without a country. The conquering Burman leader U Aungzeya persecuted the Mon by massacring over 3,000 learned Mon monks near Rangoon; by burning down holy scriptures and monasteries; by proscribing Mon language and literature; and by genocidal mass execution whereby thousands of Mon were exterminated in ...

Also known as the Mun, Peguan, Talaing, Taleng, the Mon are the principal Burma branch of the Mon-Khmer ethnic group and the remnant of the first great civilization to dominate Southeast Asia.

Feb 14, 2019 · The Mon political leaders campaigned to celebrate “National Day” with a traditional event of making Mon Cake or “Yar-hu” on the full moon day of Mide in the monastery while they recalled the history of the Mon people and the political situation of the country.

Jun 15, 1995 · This home page provides information about the Mon people. There are several million Mon people in Burma and Thailand. Mon people are experiencing brutal repression at the hands of the Burmese government. Everyone concerned with human rights should be aware of the case of the Mon. Note: Mon is not the same as Hmong.

The Mon people are an ethnic group. They live in the southeastern part of Myanmar, and in central and northern Thailand, and in Laos In Myanmar, they settle near the estuary of the Sittaung River and the Salween River. They can also be found in the Kanchanaburi province in Thailand, and the Greater Bangkok area. They usually speak the Mon ...

The Mon are the earliest known inhabitants of lower Burma. They founded an empire, and introduced both writing and Buddhism into Burma. In the year 573, two Mon brothers, Prince Samala and Prince Wimala, founded the Mon kingdom Hongsavatoi at the present site of …

From the seventh to the ninth centuries A.D., Mon states dotted the coast of Burma and the Chao Phraya valley of Thailand. The Mons were politically subjugated during the First Burmese Empire (1044-1257), although culturally they still dominated the conquering Burmese people.

Jun 6, 2018 · The Mon are an indigenous people who live in what is today’s Myanmar. There are around 800,000 people of Mon ancestry in Myanmar and another 100,000 in Thailand. The Mon speak their own language, Mon, which is part of the Monic Mon-Khmer branch of the Austro-Asiatic family and is related to Vietnamese and Khmer.