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His Resignation

Ne Win suddenly resigned because 8 was his lucky number (August 8 1988=8/8/88).

Why does one resign because 8 is his lucky number?! I can't believe this is all...Pascal 23:27, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)

The date of the resignation has been revised to 23 July 1988 by User:161.142.87.2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Ne_Win&diff=prev&oldid=18955095). It's no longer 1988-8-8. -- PFHLai 03:52, 2005 August 7 (UTC)

This is Ne Win we are talking about though...

PMelvilleAustin 06:03, Oct 21, 2003 (UTC)

I have a complete article on Ne Win that I never managed to get published. Now that doesn't matter, because I discovered Misplaced Pages. But how do I link my article too? Or do I merge it or something? Philologus 17:15, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

Feel free to edit any NPOV knowledge you have into the article... --Cruci 22:16, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Assassination

On this page, it says the British assasinanted Aung San. On another page http://en.wikipedia.org/Aung_San, it says it was a rival. Who was it???

In response to the confusion, I'm removing the accusation toward the British and am inserting a "hedged" replacement to reflect the apparent lack of certainty. It all sounds rather dubious to me. Replacement text:

Aung San was assassinated in 1947; U Saw, a former Prime Minister and political rival of Aung San, was found guilty of the crime and executed. However, there are also suggestions that the assassination was carried out by the British.

--Cruci 22:14, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Assassination

I've edited out the sentence raising the idea that there may have been official British involvement in Aung San's assassination. The most authoritative account of which I'm aware is U Kin Oung's "Who Killed Aung San?" (White Lotus, Bangkok, 2nd edition 1996 - a revised 3rd edition is due out sometime soon). KO finds that the assassination was carried out by followers of U Saw, acting on his orders (which is identical with the findings of the trial and not really in question). He also finds that several low-ranking British army officers (majors and captains) sold U Saw his weapony - largly because they were involved in black market arms dealing and would have sold anything to anyone. OK finds no involvement by the British above this ad hoc group of quite junior people. He examines, and finds more plausible, the idea of some form of involvement by Ne Win - but the evidence isn't strong.

The idea of official British involvement was popularised by a BBC documentary broadcast on the 50th anniversary of the assassination, but it's no more than a theory, and not a very convincing one. If the Wiki article is about facts, rather than conjectures, it has no place here. PiCo 00:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Ne Win's resignation

Ne Win's resignation: It's not true that 8, or 8.8.88, or any other combination of 8, was Ne Win's lucky number. His lucky number was 9 - hence all those strange currency notes that added up to nine (45 kyat note, 90 kyat note...). It would be quite plausible for him to resign because of the date, but in this case, no.

Now let's see if I can add a signature... PiCo 03:16, 27 September 2005 (UTC)