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	Ne Win - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ne Win's exact date of birth is not known with certainty.
		Ne Win was asked to serve as interim prime minister from 27 October 1958 to 4 April 1960 by U Nu, when the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL) led by then prime minister U Nu split into two and U Nu barely survived a motion of no-confidence against his government in parliament.
		Ne Win also stated that after he learnt of the destruction of the RUSU as a 'revolutionary leader' he had to take 'responsibility' and gave the 'sword with sword and spear with spear' speech.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ne_Win (2136 words)

	Ne Win
		Ne Win (May 24, 1911 - December 5, 2002) (born Shu Maung) was a Burmese military commander and dictatorial ruler of the country from 1962 until 1988.
		Ne Win remained in command and was quick to establish links with the British - attending the Kandy meeting[?] and heading the anti-Communist operations later in the year in the Pyinmana[?] area.
		In early 1949, Ne Win was appointed chief-of-staff to the fragmented army.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ne/Ne_Win.html (593 words)

	Win - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nyan Win is the foreign minister of Myanmar.
		Soe Win is the prime minister of Myanmar.
		Win is an abbreviation for Microsoft Windows, used frequently in contraction, such as Win32, short for Windows 32-bit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Win (160 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ne Win's son-in-law Aye Zaw Win, 54, and three grandsons all aged in their 20s were arrested in March in a move that shocked a country which had long believed the wealthy and powerful family to be untouchable.
		Ne Win, 92, who came to power in a 1962 coup, stepped down in 1988 in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations that were crushed by the military.
		Ne Win and his favorite daughter, Sandar Win, were not accused of involvement in the coup plot but are being held under de facto house arrest.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0209/28/eng3.htm (432 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Former Burma dictator Ne Win dies
		Ne Win came to power in a bloodless coup in 1962 and stayed in power until overthrown in 1988 amid massive pro-democracy rallies.
		Although Ne Win's military leadership in 1948 - when the country was in the turmoil of civil war - may well have prevented the country fragmenting along ethnic lines, after coming to power he presided over a significant decline in the country's prosperity.
		Ne Win's personal fortunes finally dipped to their lowest ebb when he was placed under house arrest and charges were laid against three family members for trying to undermine the government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2544975.stm (492 words)

	Degenerate - A New Generation of Madness - 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ne Win was born with the name Shu Maung, in a town with the monstrously Anglicized name of Paungdale.
		Ne Win, the former student leader, took personal offense and, should anyone wonder if he was feeling as benevolent as the first time, ordered his soldiers to mow them down.
		Ne Win declared that he would steer the country away from U Nu's obsession with seeing Buddha in all things and back towards a more practical formulation of the Burmese Way to Socialism.
	www.diacritica.com /degenerate/1/burma4.html (2907 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Obituary: Ne Win
		Ne Win was born Shu Maung - "apple of one's eye" - in Paungdale, central Burma, on 24 May 1911.
		A devotee of Marx and Stalin, Ne Win brutally crushed all opposition and clashes between students and the military were common, usually with fatal consequences for the demonstrators.
		Ne Win's three grandsons and son-in-law were found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1581413.stm (773 words)

	Death sentences end Ne Win's influence - smh.com.au
		While the 92-year Ne Win has not been directly implicated in the supposed conspiracy, he remains under effective house arrest and the humiliation of his family is seen as a declaration that his dominance of Burmese politics for most of the past four decades is finally at an end.
		Aye Zaw Win is the husband of Sanda Win, the wealthy favourite daughter of Ne Win, who himself seized power in 1962 and proclaimed the isolationist doctrine of the "Burmese way to socialism" which succeeded in turning one of Asia's richest lands into a regional basket case.
		Ne Win stepped aside in 1988 during a pro-democracy uprising that ended with the slaughter by the armed forces of thousands of demonstrators.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/27/1032734327739.html (660 words)

	Ne Win killer file (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ne Win suffers a heart attack in September and is subsequently fitted with a pacemaker.
		On 7 March Ne Win and his favourite daughter Sandar are placed under house arrest in Rangoon after Sandar's husband and three sons (Ne Win's son-in-law and three grandsons) are taken into custody for allegedly plotting a coup with dissident military commanders.
		Ne Win learnt well from the British colonialists, applying their tried and tested policy of divide and rule to engineer his ascendancy and then subjugate and exploit those whose legitimate claims provided the pretext for his rise.
	www.moreorless.au.com /killers/win.html (6123 words)

	Ne Win -- former dictator of Burma
		Ne Win, the reclusive, eccentric general whose ruthless rule bankrupted Burma economically and spiritually during his 26 years in power, died Thursday at age 91 in Rangoon, members of his family said.
		Ne Win, born Shu Maung in the town of Paungbe, dropped out of the University of Rangoon in 1932 and began his working life as a postal clerk.
		Ne Win's ruling revolutionary council was known as the Burma Socialist Program Party, and his ideology was something he called the Burmese Way to Socialism -- a rigid Stalinist blueprint that closed Burma to outsiders, put absolute power in the hands of the military and shut down all avenues of free expression.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/12/06/BA148054.DTL (496 words)

	Ne Win dies at 91 -DAWN - International; December 6, 2002
		Ne Win, 91, relinquished formal power in 1988, and was believed to hold considerable sway over the current military junta until he fell from grace this year after several close relatives were sentenced to death for an alleged coup plot.
		Ne Win suffered the sudden and savage fall from grace after a court in September sentenced his son-in-law and three grandsons to death for plotting to overthrow the government with the aid of renegade officers and fl magic.
		Although Ne Win was not implicated in the plot, he was held in de facto house arrest, forbidden from leaving his home and shunned by the junta he created.
	www.dawn.com /2002/12/06/int10.htm (426 words)

	Asia Times: Myanmar's generals mean business
		Ne Win's family members were arrested this month and accused of plotting to overthrow the government.
		Ne Win's family is known to be superstitious and authorities said that they found voodoo-like dolls of the top three generals during a raid on Sandar Win's office.
		Ne Win has long been known to hold a grudge against Aung San Suu Kyi, since she criticized him in public when she entered politics 12 years ago.
	atimes.com /se-asia/DC21Ae01.html (1239 words)

	Chin Human Rights Organization - CHRO - The Ne Win Doctrine: A Systematic Campaign of Hatred
		Ne Win realized that to become the Prime Minister of Burma or to be able to run the country, he needed to be the commanding officer of a large army, and from that day on he worked on a scheme that eventually made him the oppressor of the peoples of Burma for forty years.
		General Ne Win and most Burman had never been to the Chin Hills themselves, and perceived it to be a very primitive area whose simple inhabitants had neither the ability nor the will to develop their country.
		At the moment that the Ne Win army was incapable of ruling the country, the Karen and the Mon were attacking each other for control of trade routes in their areas which brought in trade taxes.
	www.chro.org /index.php/opinions/50 (6121 words)

	Ne Win Family’s conspiracy trial & some questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On March 7, Ne Win's son -in– law Aye Zaw Win, husband of his daughter Sanda Win and three of his grand sons were arrested while dining at a Chinese restaurant with an unnamed former army commander.
		This illustration strengthens the view that inclusion of Sanda Win is crucial to the sustainability of the prosecution case.
		Ne Win and San Da Win can be made co-accused at any stage of the trial if the Court thinks than they should thereafter be given bail or kept under house arrest that the Court can do.
	www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2002/news-in-jul/14-jun02-10.htm (1697 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ne Win's son-in-law, Aye Zaw Win, and his three sons were arrested on Thursday while having dinner at a Chinese restaurant.
		Sandar Win, who was not at the restaurant, is believed to be in her house, as is the 90-year-old Ne Win.
		Kyaw Win, deputy head of military intelligence, told reporters on Saturday that the four arrested men have admitted they were planning to overthrow the government with the help of some military officers who were not named.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0203/13/eng2.htm (392 words)

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		Ne Win rose to power in the late 1930s as a leader in Burma's efforts to establish autonomous rule.
		Ne Win and several members of his immediate family were arrested in March for allegedly plotting a coup with the help of voodoo dolls and sorcery.
		Ne Win was quickly and quietly cremated yesterday, his ashes scattered in the Rangoon river.
	www.rebound88.net /02/dec/07.html (1627 words)

	CNN.com - Myanmar moves Ne Win relatives to jail - April 18, 2002
		Ne Win's son-in-law and three grandsons have been moved to Insein prison in Yangon from the military compound where they had been held since their arrest on March 7, a senior intelligence official told The Associated Press.
		Aye Zaw Win, the husband of Ne Win's daughter, Sandar Win, and their three sons, were arrested at a Yangon restaurant on charges of plotting to overthrow Myanmar's military government.
		Kyaw Win, said earlier this month that all four would be tried for high treason and that thorough investigations were under way to build up the case.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/04/18/myanmar.newin (239 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		U Tin Htun, a high-ranking army officer in his 80s who was close to Ne Win, said that he had advised the former leader to die as a savior of the country, not as a villain.
		Ne Win was born on May 24, 1911 at Paungdale in Prome.
		Ne Win officially came to power in a 1962 coup and formally stepped down in July 1988 amid nationwide protests calling for an end to his 26 years of military rule, a period that drove Burma into deep poverty.
	www.gvnews.net /html/DailyNews/alert3035.html (1129 words)

	Former Myanmar Dictator Dies - CBS News
		His son-in-law — Aye Zaw Win, 54, the husband of Ne Win's daughter Sandar Win, and the couple's three sons — Aye Ne Win, 25, Kyaw Ne Win, 23, and Zwe Ne Win, 21 — were sentenced to death Sept. 26 after being convicted of treason on the coup charges.
		Ne Win was at the forefront of Myanmar's struggle for independence from Britain, which was achieved in 1948.
		When Ne Win took power in 1962, Myanmar was well on the way to recovering from the ravages of the Second World War, exporting 2 million tons of rice per year.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/12/04/world/main531787.shtml (776 words)

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		Ne Win ruled with an iron fist in what was then called Burma (now Myanmar) for 26 years, seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1962.
		Ne Win retired from politics and public life in 1988 just prior to a popular uprising for democracy led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of the late independence hero General Aung San.
		Ne Win's favoured daughter Sandar Win, a medical doctor and businesswoman who was put under house arrest along with her father, attended Thursday's service.
	www.burmanet.org /bnn_archives/2002/20021205.txt (4721 words)

	A Paranoid Ex-dictator's Death Brings Relative Silence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ne Win, the paranoid, astrologer-consulting tyrant who closed off the nation of Burma -- now called Myanmar -- from the world and presided over its ruin, had died the day before at age 91 in Rangoon, where he had lived under house arrest since March.
		The Burmese can thank Ne Win for their present predicament: poverty and isolation, which has helped turn Myanmar into the world's second-largest producer of heroin, much of which is destined for Americans' veins.
		Ne Win washed himself with the blood of dolphins to ensure youth and vigor.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/809522/posts (745 words)

	Online Burma Library > Main Library > Politics and Government > Prominent Figures > U Ne Win
		Ne Win, the mastermind behind Burma's decline as a modern nation, has emerged from the shadows for the first time this century.
		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.
		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.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/show.php?cat=426 (404 words)

	News Alert Archives - The Irrawaddy News Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Maj Gen Kyaw Win, deputy intelligence chief, told a news conference that Aye Zaw Win and his three sons were arrested on Thursday evening on charges of planning to overthrow the military government and split the armed forces.
		Aye Zaw Win, a businessman in his early 50s and husband of Ne Win’s daughter, Sandar Win, was arrested Thursday night while dining at a Chinese restaurant with an unnamed former army commander.
		Kyaw Win said that Ne Win's grandsons were unhappy with the cease-fire agreements between the military and ethnic groups as well as the political dialogue between the generals and the National League for Democracy (NLD).
	www.irrawaddy.org /news/2002/mar10.html (488 words)

	Myanmar's stalemate
		As the "father of all" military regimes that have ruled Myanmar, Ne Win's clout is now the subject matter of considerable speculation, despite the fact that he retired in 1988.
		Kyaw Win said the arrests took place in a Yangon restaurant where the conspiracy was being discussed with a former commanding officer.
		According to Kyaw Win, the plotters were unhappy that the Ne Win family and its associates, who had long enjoyed state patronage, were now being denied favours.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1908/19080580.htm (1217 words)

	Vol.5 No.6 September - Ne Win (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ne Win discusses the formation of a people’s militia and the launching of a “people’s war” against the insurgents.
		Dec 24 —Ne Win storms into Inya Lake Hotel and stops the music as a noisy Christmas party is goingon.
		Ne Win announces that he intends to retire from his position as president of Burma, but remain chairman of the BSPP.
	www.irrawaddy.org /database/1997/vol5.6/newin.html (572 words)

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		Ne Win's son-in-law Aye Zaw Win and three grandsons have been tried on charges of recruiting army officers for a coup against Myanmar's military junta.
		Ne Win, who came to power in a 1962 coup, stepped down in 1988 in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations that were crushed by the military.
		The government has said that Ne Win's relatives planned the coup because they were upset at losing some of their economic and political privileges as Ne Win's behind-the-scenes influence waned.
	www.rebound88.net /02/sep/25.html (1703 words)

	'Strongman of Burma' makes 1st public appearance in 13 years Asian Political News - Find Articles
		Gen. Ne Win, the longest ruling leader of Myanmar once known as the ''Strongman of Burma,'' made his first major public appearance in 13 years on March 21, sources close to the gathering confirmed Tuesday.
		According to a former minister and a military commander in Ne Win's government who were close to him and present at the lunch, the 91-year-old general is in perfect health.
		Ne Win himself, Bo Hmu Aung, Bo Ye Htut and Bo Kyaw Zaw are the only ones of the 30 still alive.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2001_April_16/ai_73374630 (477 words)

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