U Ne Win
Individual Documents
| Title: | | Sorting the Tamadaw After Ne Win |
| Date of publication: | | January 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | "With Ne Win’s death, some say the personality-driven succession arrangements among leaders of the armed forces will go too...
If history is any guide, the current military leaders will find it tougher to manage succession arrangements within the Tatmadaw (armed forces) in the wake of Ne Win’s death and the collapse of his personal dictatorship.
A new style of personality power was institutionalized when Ne Win, sensing the important role the military would play in determining Burma’s post-colonial fate, gained control of the Tatmadaw in 1949. Only his most trusted proteges rose among the ranks while he demoted other officers whimsically. He personally handpicked former Gen Saw Maung and the current Number One, Sr-Gen Than Shwe..." |
| Author/creator: | | Min Zin |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 11. No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Putschplan durch Angehörige Ne Wins vereitelt? |
| Date of publication: | | May 2002 |
| Description/subject: | | Über den Putschversuch der Angehörigen Ne Wins im März 2002. About the coup d'etat of Ne Win's kin. |
| Author/creator: | | Günter Siemers |
| Language: | | Deutsch, German |
| Source/publisher: | | Insitut für Asienkunde |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | The Talk of the Town Turns Ninety |
| Date of publication: | | May 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | With the talks between Burma's military rulers and the democratic opposition still under wraps in Rangoon, the talk of the capital has turned to the latest public appearance by former dictator Ne Win. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 9. No. 4 (Intelligence section) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | The King Who Never Dies |
| Date of publication: | | April 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | Ne Win, the mastermind behind Burma's decline as a modern nation, has emerged from the shadows for the first time this century. |
| Author/creator: | | Aung Zaw |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 9, No. 3 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Broadening the Breach |
| Date of publication: | | July 2000 |
| Description/subject: | | In November 1977, Burmese dictator Ne Win made a visit to Cambodia, then under the control of the Khmer Rouge. Prompted by a request from China, the trip also helped Ne Win to neutralize the influence of the Communist Party of Burma by exploiting a growing rift between the conservative CPB leadership and reformers rising to power in Beijing. Bertil Lintner examines this revealing episode in Ne Win's political career. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol..8 No. 7 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Back in the Limelight |
| Date of publication: | | September 1997 |
| Description/subject: | | Burma's former leader Ne Win arrived in Jakarta for a three-day visit amid speculation that Indonesian President Suharto was to ask the Burmese patriarch to influence Rangoon's military junta to open dialogue with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Speculation began to circulate in Jakarta two months ago that Suharto was inviting Ne Win to come discuss the issue of democratisation in Burma. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 5. No. 6 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | The Rise and Fall of General Ne Win |
| Date of publication: | | September 1997 |
| Description/subject: | | Bio-chronology 1947-1988 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 5. No.6 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Letter to General Ne Win from U Aung Gyi |
| Date of publication: | | August 1997 |
| Description/subject: | | Rangoon May 1, 1992 Through a series of open letters to Ne Win and former members of the Revolutionary Council written between 1988 and 1992, U Aung Gyi criticized the economic policies and human rights abuses of the government. The following excerpts are from one of these letters. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Burma Debate", Vol.. IV, No. 3 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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