Notes

1 New York Times, 26 August 1988.

2 Daw Mya Sein, ‘The Women of Burma’, in ‘Perspective on Burma’, Atlantic Monthly, 201 (February 1958), p.24.

3 Aye Kyaw, The Voice of Young Burma, a forthcoming publication on the student and nationalist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, to be published by the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, Ithaca, NY.

4 Government of Burma, Burma’s Fight for Freedom: Independence Commemoration, Rangoon, 1948, pp. 86–8. Mi Mi Khaing, The World of Burmese Women, London, 1984, reported that four women were elected to the Constituent Assembly but this is contradicted in the official record of that body.

5 See this volume, pp. 140–64.

6 See this volume, pp. 82–139.

7 Tom Nagorski, ‘In Burma, a Season of Anniversaries’, The Nation (Bangkok), 19 July 1989.

8 Studies of Aung San, in addition to that of Aung San Suu Kyi, are found in Josef Silverstein (ed. and contrib.), The Political Legacy of Aung San, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, Data Paper 86, Ithaca, NY, 1972; and Maung Maung (comp. and ed.), Aung San of Burma, The Hague, 1962.

9 New York Times, 14 August 1988.

10 The Times, London, 29 August 1988.

11 New York Times, 22 January 1990.

12 Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 1989.

13 The Nation (Bangkok), 23 February 1989.

14 Working People’s Daily (Rangoon), 18 September 1988.

15 New York Times, 24 June 1989.

16 Ministry of Information, Communist Party’s Conspiracy to Take Over State Power, Rangoon, 1989.

17 There were many reports by responsible foreign journalists. See New York Times, 9 January 1989; The Nation (Bangkok), 6 April 1989; New York Times, 24 June 1989; also see ‘50th State SLORC Press Conference, 21 July 1989’, Working People’s Daily (Rangoon), 22 July 1989, for a list of infractions – from the military’s point of view – by Aung San Suu Kyi that led up to her house arrest.

18 Bangkok Post, 16 April 1989.

19 Ibid., 18 February 1990.

20 Far Eastern Economic Review, Asia 1991 Yearbook, Hong Kong, p. 86.

21 Manifesto of the National League for Democracy (typescript photocopy). All successive quotations are from this document.

22 Interview with Burma’s ambassador to Thailand, U Nyunt Swe, The Nation (Bangkok), 27 July 1991.

23 Bangkok Post, 27 August 1991.