The Caretaker Government of Ne Win was formed in 1958 after Ne Win, then Chief of Staff, took over state power from U Nu, then Prime Minister. This is the first caretaker government in Burmese history. After the 1960 election, power was restored to U Nu.[1][2]
Caretaker Government of the Union of Burma | |
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| 1958 — 1960 | |
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| Date formed | 28 October 1958 |
| Date dissolved | April 1960 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Mahn Win Maung (President) |
| Head of government | General Ne Win (Prime Minister) |
| Deputy head of government |
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| Member party | Tatmadaw and others |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Second U Nu Government |
| Successor | Third U Nu Government |
History
editThe political situation became chaotic after the ruling Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL) split in April 1958 as a clean AFPFL and stable AFPFL party. On the morning of September 26 1958, Colonel Aung Gyi, Brigadier General Tin Pe, Colonel Maung Maung from the Tatmadaw visited PM U Nu's house. In the evening, the executive meeting of the ruling AFPFL and the current cabinet ministers meetings were held consecutively. At that time, General Ne Win paid a short visit. The Cabinet meeting decided to nominate General Ne Win as the Prime Minister at a parliamentary session on 28 September.[1] Incumbent Prime Minister U Nu has written to General Ne Win to form a caretaker government to handle the conditions. U Nu told Ne Win to hold general election again within 6 months (April 1959).[3][4][5]
Then, in October 1958, a caretaker government was formed and sworn in at the Presidential Palace in Rangoon. Parliaments were not dissolved. This government is made up of a small portion of the military, mostly civilian ministers and local leaders. Newspapers reported that U Nu resigned and handed over power to General Ne Win, but some described it as a coup.[6][7]
On 29 April 1959, during the caretaker government, 34 Shan Saopha relinquished power.[8] General Election was held in February 1960 and U Nu won the election. However, two years later, in March 1962, the military seized power.
Cabinet
edit| No | Name | Ministry |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Ne Win | |
| 2 | Thein Maung (1958-1959) |
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| Lun Baw (1959-1960) | Deputy Prime Minister | |
| 3 | Khin Maung Phyu | Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Informatiom, Ministry of Immigration and National Registration |
| 4 | Chan Tun Aung | Ministry of Justice |
| 5 | Kyaw Nyein | Ministry of Finance and Revenue |
| 6 | Ba Kyar | Ministry of Cooperatives and Commodity Distribution |
| 7 | San Nyunt | Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Construction |
| 8 | U Kar | Ministry of Education, Ministry of Forestry |
| 9 | Chit Thaung | Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Labour |
| 10 | Sao Wanna | Minister for Kayah State |
| 11 | Sao Hong Pe | Minister for Shan State |
| 12 |
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Minister for Chin |
| 13 | Saw Hla Tum | Minister for Kayin |
| 14 | Duwa Zaw Lun | Minister for Kachin State |
References
edit- ^ a b c "ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီးနေဝင်း၊ ပထမအိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရနဲ့ ပညာရှင်နိုင်ငံရေး".
- ^ "49. Memorandum From the Director, Far East Region (Heinz) to the Assistant Secretary of Defense For International Security Affairs (Nitze)0".
- ^ "ပါမောက္ခ ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်မောင်မောင်၊ မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်ကို ပုံဖော်သူ".
- ^ "အိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရ အသုံးအနှုန်းက ရှည်ကြာသော စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် ထူထောင်ရန် ရည်ရွယ်လိုပုံ ရ".
- ^ "ဝန်ကြီးတွေ ဆေးတံသောက်တဲ့လွှတ်တော်၊ ဘက်ဂျက်နဲ့ အာဏာလုပွဲ".
- ^ "1988 — 3rd coup" (in Burmese).
- ^ "မြန်မာပြည်မှာ သိမ်းသည်၊ တပ်မတော်၊ ဒီမိုကရေစီနဲ့ နိုင်ငံရေးသံသရာ".
- ^ "စော်ဘွားတို့ အာဏာစွန့်ချိန်".
- ^ "ဝန်ကြီးပြီးတော့ သူပုန်၊ သူပုန်ပြီးတော့ ဝန်ကြီး- မြန်မာ့နိုင်ငံရေး ဝင်္ကပါခရီး".