About general nay win

Taylor, whose academic career was beginning when Gen Ne Win seized power in , regrets never having met the controversial, enigmatic man who was a father of the Tatmadaw, and its leader for 26 years, and head of state for 19 years.

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But he knew many who did, and their accounts, together with more than 50 years of observation and research, have resulted in an impressive work of scholarship that is likely to challenge opinions about a much misunderstood man. Frontier interviewed Prof. Taylor by email. As I explain in the epilogue to General Ne Win: A Political Biography , the oft repeated claim that Myanmar was one of the richest countries in Southeast Asia before the General took over in is false.

However, as her data also shows, and I discuss, relative to the more dynamic economies of the region, Myanmar failed to keep pace with their rates of development after , and especially after the late s when Japanese and Western investment flows increased to the capitalist economies of the region. So, it is not a fair assessment but the economic record of the Burmese Road to Socialism was far from a success story.

Ne Win admitted that himself often in his speeches. Look at the loss of lives and physical destruction in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam during the Cold War and the hot wars between the United States and the Communist and Communist-aligned states of the region that occurred from the s through to the s. Similarly, look at the loss of lives in the Korean War.

However, in the case of General Ne Win, his choice to remain loyal to the government when the pro-Communist officers in the army went underground in , and he eventually became Defence, Home and Deputy Prime Minister amongst other things, and led the fight again the Burma Communist Party and the Karen National Union. His actions did not give the United States and its allies a justification to intervene to ensure the Communists did not come to power as was happening at that time in Korea and subsequently in Vietnam.