1962 Burmese coup d'état
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The <entity_0> on <entity_1> marked the beginning of totalitarian rule and the political dominance of the army in Burma (now <entity_3>) which spanned the course of 26 years. Less than two years after the caretaker government had handed power back to the AFPFL-government, on <entity_1>, Ne Win again seized power in a military-staged <entity_2>. Multiple scholars, including Aung Thwin & Aung Thwin and Taylor, describe how the <entity_2> at first didn't affect the lives of the general population in <entity_3>. Furthermore, no foreign powers opposed the <entity_2> since the Revolutionary Council reassured that <entity_3>'s foreign policy of neutrality in the Cold War would continue. By March 1964 – two years after the <entity_2> – the main part of <entity_3>'s economy was nationalised. One scholar who to a large extent framed the significance of the <entity_2> within this narrative is Callahan, who investigates how the <entity_2> brought civilian rule in <entity_3> to "such a definitive end," when authoritarian regimes in neighbouring countries got replaced with more or less democratic political systems. Finally the military's decisions to implement policies that distanced <entity_3> from the external world can be understood as period of genuine independence, where the significance of the <entity_2> is to be found in the emotional autonomy that came from being economic and cultural independent from British colonial rule.
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