Last week 49-year-old U Nu finally got his resignation accepted. But his destination was not the monastery. Though the coalition won a comfortable majority of 170 out of 250 seats in Burma’s ...

Myanmar’s civil war is unwinnable under the circumstances. Supporting Kachin independence could secure rare earth supplies, ...

Two men have taken most of the turns at the helm of Burma ever since the nation became independent in 1948: gentle, popular U Nu, the kerchiefed, sometime Buddhist monk who became ...

Excerpts from speeches by the honorable U Nu, Prime Minister of the Union of Burma. By U Nu. February 1958 Issue. Share. Save.

Heckler & Koch firearms have played an unheralded and destructive role in the civil wars that have consumed the country since ...

U Nu’s government faced many challenges from the outset – disgruntled communist factions and ethnic groups, who felt excluded from the deeply Buddhist Nu’s vision of the country, began insurgencies, ...

U Nu's strongest political ally, Thakin Tin, regards himself as a Marxist of socialist persuasion. He did not like U Nu's equating Communism and Marxism. Similarly, U Ba Swe, the leader of the ...

The other main oppositions were the Communist Party of Burma, a Maoist group, and the Red Flag Burma Communist Party, a radical communist tendency from Burma.In 1959 and 1962, the military conducted ...

The nation then known as Burma gained independence from British rule on 4 January and became an independent republic. A constitutional government was formed and politician U Nu was nominated as ...