Mass expulsion
"Naga Min" (meaning "conqueror of all Kulars") (or literally Dragon King) Expulsion
Operation to expel the Rohingya (this operation was led by the man known as Ne Win's
Butcher Brigadier General Sein Lwin, a conservative Buddhist monastery product born
in an Upper Burma village and raised by the Burma Army, whose formal Buddhist
education stopped at 4th Grade. Sein Lwin was also in charge of the bloody crackdown
of 8.8.88 uprisings)
Bangladesh, emerging out of its civil war of East and West Pakistan as an independent
nation, openly threatened Ne Win's regime by telling General Ne Win that Burma
needed to take these Rohinga refugees back, or Bangladesh had ample stockpiles of
arms to give away to the angry Rohingyas. That was when Ne Win and his deputies
backed down and took 200,000 Rohingya refugees back).
General Ne Win was the country's best known racist, especially with a rather virulent
strain of anti-Muslim and Christian racisms. He was the only Burmese general who
ordered mosques in Mandalay to stop any early morning prayers which are generally
amplified through loud-speakers mounted atop mosques every time he stayed in the
Northwest Command Military Headquarters inside Mandalay's walled city (the
Palace). Ne Win embarked on the policy of cleansing of the Burma Army of any
officer who was not a Buddhist. There was one or two exception. But as a matter of
policy, Christian and Muslim officers were forced out of any position of importance
early in their careers. Since Ne Win's time, the successive MILITARY regimes