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    Ne Win (Burmese: နေဝင်း; IPA: [ wɪ́ɰ̃]; 24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002), born Shu Maung (Burmese: ရှူမောင်; IPA: [/ʃù màʊ̃̀/]), was a Burmese military...
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  • Kawleikgyin Ne Win (1928-1983), two-time Myanmar Academy Award winning actor Hayma Ne Win, singer, daughter of Kawleikgyin Ne Win Yaza Ne Win, actor, son...
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    Collegian Ne Win (Burmese: ကောလိပ်ဂျင်နေဝင်း, pronounced [kɔ̀lèdʑɪ̀ɰ̃ wɪ́ɰ̃]; 1 October 1928 – 2 June 1983) was a two-time Burmese Academy Award winning...
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  • Aye Ne Win (Burmese: အေးနေဝင်း; born on 15 November 1976) is a Burmese businessman and former political inmate who spent 11 years in prison for a high...
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  • ruled the country as a totalitarian one-party state, headed by General Ne Win. Under the government agenda, called the Burmese Way to Socialism, which...
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    Communist Party of Burma and the Karen National Union (KNU). In 1962, General Ne Win led a coup, establishing a military junta and refusing to adopt a federal...
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  • Minister U Nu, along with the Union Revolutionary Council Chaired by General Ne Win. In the first 12 years following the coup, the country was ruled under martial...
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    insurgencies, especially in Chin, Kachin, Kayin, Kayah, and Shan states. General Ne Win took control of the country in a 1962 coup d'état, attempting to build an...
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    second tenure was cut short by a military coup in 1962, led by General Ne Win. Following the coup, Nu was placed under house arrest and later allowed...
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    The Caretaker Government of Ne Win was formed in 1958 after Ne Win, then Chief of Staff, took over state power from U Nu, then Prime Minister. This is...
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    coup d'état by General Ne Win, a Burmese general who began his military career fighting for the Japanese in World War II. Ne Win carried out military operations...
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    (nephew of Bo Yan Aung) and Soe Win (son of Ludu U Hla and Ludu Daw Amar), met the same fate the next month. Ne Win's government took advantage of the...
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    script. Burma (Myanmar) was under the military dictatorship of Ne Win from 1962 to 1988. Ne Win and his allies in the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) overthrew...
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  • Yar Zar Nay Win (Burmese: ရာဇာနေဝင်း; pronounced [jàzà wɪ́ɰ̃]; also spelt Yaza Ne Win, born 1968) is a Burmese film actor and singer. He was one of...
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  • Sandar Win (also spelt Khin Sanda Win; Burmese: ခင်စန္ဒာဝင်း; born 1952 in Rangoon, Burma) is the daughter of former Burmese dictator Ne Win. She played...
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    1962 to 1988 and the sole legal party from 1964 to 1988. Party chairman Ne Win overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup d'état...
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  • In April 1972, General Ne Win and the rest of the Union Revolutionary Council retired from the military, but now as U Ne Win, he continued to run the...
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    March 1957. He served for five years until 2 March 1962, when General Ne Win's military coup d'état ousted Nu's government. He was imprisoned between...
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  • Zimbabwean feminist activist Ne Win (1910–2002), Burmese military commander Soe Win (disambiguation), multiple people Nyan Win (born 1953), foreign minister...
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  • student-led demonstrations in the capital. He was seen as the brutal cohort of Ne Win and the man responsible for the ruthless suppression of dissent, notably...
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    election saw the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, win in a landslide. With the transition from an USDP to NLD-led government, Min...
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    Arumugam argues that the transition was simply a "change of garb", and that Ne Win and his senior commanders merely retired from the army and became civilian...
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    animosity between Thant and Ne Win went back only to 1969, when Ne Win believed Thant was conniving with Nu after Nu denounced Ne Win at a press corps meeting...
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    Hay Mar Nay Win (Burmese: ဟေမာနေဝင်း, pronounced [hèmà wɪ́ɰ̃]; commonly spelt Hayma Ne Win) is a Burmese singer who was popular during the late 1980s...
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  • a succession of short-lived predecessors that followed the toppling of Ne Win earlier in 1988. Saw Maung assumed responsibility as chairman of the newly...
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    Win Myint (Burmese: ဝင်းမြင့်; MLCTS: wang: mrang. [wɪ́ɰ̃ mjɪ̰ɰ̃]; born 8 November 1951) is a Burmese politician who served as the 10th president of Myanmar...
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    anti-unity and pro-disintegration. On 2 March 1962, the military led by General Ne Win took control of Burma through a coup d'état, and the government had been...
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    on advice from his soothsayers, a style of ruling dating back to General Ne Win, a leader who once shot his mirror to avoid bad luck. In May and November...
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    It resulted in the Prime Minister U Nu handing over the power to General Ne Win as the leader of the caretaker government in 1960. The situation was not...
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    after Ne Win (who was president from 4 March 1974 to 9 November 1981) the second-longest serving president in post-independent Burma. Ne Win remained...
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