HISTORY

v    1886 – country came under British control – administered as a province of Br. India

v    two-tier [tie: rząd,kondygnacja] administration – Ministerial Burma (economic development concentrated) and Frontier Areas (ethnic minorities)

v    1920 – first, serious nationalist manifestation – student strike at Rangoon University

v    subsequent years – the national movement was established  (Aung San)

v    with the II WW over – the British wanted to reimpose the old colonial system àimpossible (the nastionalists had become a well-oragnized piolitical and military force)

v    January 4, 1948 – independence; the first PM – former student leader U Nu

v    July 1947 – Aung San + six veterans of independence struggle were gunned down

v    the new state was plunged into civil war

v    Ne Win – emerged as a leader of Burmese army

v    On March 2, 1962, Ne Win sezied power in a coup which inaugurated more than three decades of  military rule

MILITARY RULE 1962-1974

·        Ne Win formed a Revolutionary Council and ruled by decree.

·        imprisonment of Government and minority group leaders + hundreds of political activists. Within the new administration, Ne Win had total control.