Ne Win’s Policies After Ne Win (1988–2020) and Saw Eh Htoo’s Hopes

This chapter describes how Ne Win’s policies of Burmanization persisted after he stepped down from formal power in 1988, and after his death in 2002. Indeed, the Burmanization ethics had gripped the nation so tightly that the mass expulsion of Rohingya was a popular and logical result of how deeply Burmanization was embedded in the culture, even in a society which had a profound dislike for the excesses of the military. This is followed with a section about what, given such problems, Saw Eh Htoo’s hopes for Myanmar are.