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Bookmark or Share- Ne Win - WikipediaNe Win (Burmese: နေဝင်း; IPA: [nè wɪ́ɰ̃]; 24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002), [6] born Shu Maung (Burmese: ရှူမောင်; IPA: [/ʃù màʊ̃̀/]), was a Burmese army general and politician who served as Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974, and also President of Burma from 1962 to 1981.
- Ne Win: Understanding the 'old man' - Frontier MyanmarProfessor Robert H. Taylor’s meticulously-researched General Ne Win: A Political Biography is an important contribution to understanding the life and times of one of the dominant figures in modern Myanmar history.
- Ne Win - Encyclopedia.comNe Win (born 1911) was a Burmese general and political leader who twice seized power from elected premier U Nu and ruled Burma (now Myanmar) as a repressive and isolationist socialist government until he resigned in 1988.
- Ne Win: The dictator who bathed in dolphin bloodNe Win, who ruled until he was himself overthrown in 1988, embodied this schizophrenic mixture of disparate political theories and religious convictions.
- U Ne Win | Myanmar General & Dictator of 1962-1988 | BritannicaU Ne Win was a Burmese general who was the leader of Burma (now Myanmar) from 1962 to 1988. Shu Maung studied at University College, Rangoon (now Yangon), from 1929 to 1931, and in the mid-1930s he became involved in the struggle for Burmese independence from the British.
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