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Ne Win Thought to Have Kept His Power in Burma; Military Action Designed to Crush Prodemocracy Movement, Maintain Clique's Control
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What happened Sept. 18 in Burma bore all the characteristics of a
classic military coup: martial music on the radio, the armed forces
commander announcing a new military Cabinet, a dusk-to-dawn curfew
and the ritual promise to hold elections "as soon as possible."
Despite appearances, however, foreign diplomats and other
analysts said they are convinced that the ousting of the civilian
president and the rise to power of Gen. Saw Maung was different from
a traditional palace coup d'etat.
The takeover and the subsequent Army crackdown-in which troops
killed at least 263 persons by the ...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Saw Maung, 68, the general who headed Burma...the northern city of Mandalay, Gen. Saw Maung joined the army in 1949, a year after...major in 1967, five years after Gen. Ne Win overthrew a democratically elected...installed single-party rule. Gen. Saw Maung had a reputation ...
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; ...BANGKOK - The death this month of Gen. Ne Win, Burma's elderly ex-dictator, ended the...former military dictator of Burma, Gen. Ne Win, has died while under house arrest, according...said. The Associated Press reported that Ne Win's remains were cremated the afternoon of...
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; ...a demand for free multiparty elections. In July General Ne Win, strongman of the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP...the summer, enduring a series of BSPP chairmen loyal to Ne Win who attempted to suppress the democracy movement with arrests...executions. On September 18 the Army commander, ...
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From the Archive 19 September 1988
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...forcing the resignations first of General Ne Win, who had reduced the country to poverty...former defence minister and army chief Saw Maung, that multi-party elections will indeed...was widely seen as a tool of General Ne Win. It bodes ill that the new man was a close associate of ...
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Ex-dictator dies under home arrest.(ROP)
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