Images: Ne Win's Coup and the Beginning of Military Rule: The Progressive Loss of Rohingya Rights
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General Ne Win, whose military coup on 2 March 1962 ended Burma's parliamentary government and established military rule. From the Rohingya perspective, the coup marked the beginning of a period in which political representation and institutional recognition were progressively dismantled, contributing to the longer process of persecution and exclusion that ultimately culminated in genocide.
