Ne Win’s Burmanization Narratives and the Prospects for Peace in Today’s Myanmar

Saw Eh Htoo; Tony Waters

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-6378-8_13

Ne Win’s Burmanization Narratives and the Prospects for Peace in Today’s Myanmar

Saw Eh Htoo
, Tony Waters

Payap University

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Abstract

This paper is about why Burmanization policies implemented by General Ne Win’s government after 1962 are important for understanding ethnic and other divisions in Burma today. These policies retrospectively were called “Bamar Baho Phyu” in Burmese, which means more precisely, “Bamar-centered policies,” or Burmanization of the economy, education, civil service, and especially the military. Like any nationalist, Ne Win wanted to put his own country first. In the autocratic “imagined community” he created, this Bamar Baho Phyu has long-term implications for the possibilities for peace, and an end to the civil war which began in 1948–1949, and continues today.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Titel	Youth, Community, and Democracy in India, Myanmar, and Thailand
Redakteure/-innen	Chosein Yamahata, Makiko Takeda
Seitenumfang	22
Erscheinungsort	Singapore
Herausgeber (Verlag)	Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum	01.01.2025
Seiten	329-350
ISBN (Print)	9789819763771
ISBN (elektronisch)	9789819763788
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6378-8_13
Publikationsstatus	Erschienen - 01.01.2025

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