Ne 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. Born in 1911, Ne Win was named...

(b. 1911), dictator of Myanmar. U Ne Win ruled Myanmar (Burma) from 1962, when he took power in a military coup, until his resignation as chairman of the single ruling party, the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), in July 1988. He is best known...

Ne Win (Burmese: ေနဝင္‌း IPA: [nè wín]; 24 May or 14 May 1911 or 10 July 1910 – 5 December 2002; born Shu Maung) was a Burmese statesman, military commander and the head of state of Burma from 1962 until 1988. Ne Win was appointed...

Ne Win was Myanmar dictator Associated Press Friday, December 6, 2002 Yangon, Myanmar -- Gen. Ne Win, the former dictator who was Myanmar's undisputed and brutal master for 26 years, died Thursday under house arrest, discredited by the very generals he...

Ne Win, the destroyer of Burma, died on December 5th, aged 91 IN THE winter of 1960, Ne Win, then prime minister of Burma, visited China to sign a treaty of friendship. He felt instantly comfortable with the Chinese, partly perhaps because...

To much of the world and many of their own citizens, Myanmar's military rulers are tyrants stubbornly standing in the way of democracy by refusing to hand over power to the political party of detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, which won...