Once upon a time, there was a man who bathed in dolphin blood.
Rangoon, Burma, before the Japanese bombing December 1941.
Getting to Know Ne Win
Shu Maung was the son of a minor civil servant from Paungdale.
An aggressive rise under changing colonisers had promised Ne Win a seat in the leadership when the time came.
What came next was an aggressive diversion into a xenophobic political landscape irrigated with Buddisht superstition and Marxist nationalisation.
His decisions were influenced as much by political theory as by astrology and numerology.
He would shoot at his own reflection in the mirror in hopes to avert an assassination.
Finally, the people spoke.
An uprising in 1988 forced Ne Win out of his seat, welcoming Saw Maung in his wake.
But this time, there was no way for the ransacker to get back on the throne.
Ne Win died in 2002, under the mundane clutches of a house arrest.
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