Editing Ne Win (section)

==Death and funeral==
Still under house arrest, Ne Win died on 5 December 2002 at his lakeside house in [[Yangon]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Former Myanmar President U Ne Win Dies|publisher=People's Daily China 5 December 2002|url=http://english.people.com.cn/200212/05/eng20021205_107999.shtml|access-date=5 February 2007|archive-date=6 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306045100/http://english.people.com.cn/200212/05/eng20021205_107999.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> The death remained unannounced by [[Burmese media]] or the junta. The only mention of Ne Win's death was a paid obituary notice that appeared in some of the government-controlled Burmese language newspapers. Ne Win was not given a [[state funeral]], and his former contacts or junior colleagues were strongly discouraged from attending a hastily arranged funeral, so that only thirty people attended the funeral.<ref>{{Cite web|title=U Ne Win {{!}} Myanmar general and dictator|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/U-Ne-Win|access-date=7 November 2020|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|archive-date=27 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027215803/https://www.britannica.com/biography/U-Ne-Win|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=6 December 2002|title=Ne Win, dictator who ruined Burma, is dead|url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/ne-win-dictator-who-ruined-burma-is-dead-20021206-gdfx8t.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110073949/https://www.smh.com.au/world/ne-win-dictator-who-ruined-burma-is-dead-20021206-gdfx8t.html|archive-date=10 January 2021|access-date=7 November 2020|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}} [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1581413.stm Alt URL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109112913/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1581413.stm |date=9 January 2021 }}</ref>

Ne Win's daughter [[Sandar Win]] was temporarily released from house arrest to attend his funeral and cremation. She later dispersed her father's ashes into the [[Hlaing River]].<ref>"After the release of Ne's daughter, [[Sandar Win]] she dispersed her father in the river of Yangon river." ({{Harvard citation no brackets|Taylor|2015|p=610}})</ref>

Ne Win's grandson [[Aye Ne Win]] and Kyaw Ne Win were released in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ei Ei Toe Lwin|title=Prisoners freed, but 60 remain behind bars|url=http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/mandalay-upper-myanmar/8821-prisoners-freed-but-60-remain-behind-bars.html|access-date=3 December 2013|newspaper=The Myanmar Times|date=18 November 2013|archive-date=7 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207012740/http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/mandalay-upper-myanmar/8821-prisoners-freed-but-60-remain-behind-bars.html|url-status=live}}</ref>