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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Youth, Community, and Democracy in India, Myanmar, and Thailand
Editors	Chosein Yamahata, Makiko Takeda
Number of pages	22
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	01.01.2025
Pages	329-350
ISBN (Print)	9789819763771
ISBN (Electronic)	9789819763788
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6378-8_13
Publication status	Published - 01.01.2025

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