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===Student and worker riots=== Sporadic protests against the government continued. Students led protests in 1965, December 1969, and December 1970.<ref>Yawnghwe, Chao-Tzang. ''Burma: Depoliticization of the Political.'' cited in Alagappa, Muthiah. (1995). ''Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority.'' [[Stanford University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-8047-2560-6}}</ref> These demonstrations took place mainly on campuses located in the cities of [[Rangoon]], [[Mandalay]] and [[Mawlamyaing|Moulmein]] and were often followed by the closure of universities and colleges. In June 1974, workers from more than 100 factories throughout the nation participated in a strike, to which the government reacted by shooting about 100 workers and students on 6 June 1974 at the Thamaing Textile Factory and the Sinmalaik Dock Yard in Rangoon.<ref>{{Cite web|date=28 September 2007|title=The Burma road to ruin|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/28/burma.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081122/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/28/burma.uk|archive-date=4 March 2016|access-date=7 November 2020|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref> Since Ne Win was in [[Australia]] on an official visit at the time, responsibility for these shootings is unclear. On [[U Thant Funeral Crisis|5 December 1974]], students turned the funeral of former [[UN Secretary General]] [[U Thant]] into a demonstration, snatching the coffin on display at the [[Kyaikkasan Race Course]] and erecting a makeshift mausoleum on the grounds of the former Student Union building in protest against the government for not honouring their famous countryman with a state funeral.<ref>Fong, Jack. (2008). ''Revolution as Development: The Karen Self-determination Struggle Against Ethnocracy (1949β2004).'' Boca Raton, FL: BrownWalker Press. {{ISBN|978-1-59942-994-6}}</ref> The [[Tatmadaw|military]] stormed the campus on 11 December, killing some of the students, recovered the coffin and buried [[U Thant]] at the foot of the [[Shwedagon pagoda]], next to the tomb of [[Thakin Kodaw Hmaing]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Myanmar Data β Ne Win (Burmese: α±ααααΉβαΈ IPA: [nΓ¨ wΓn]; 24 May or 14 May 1911 or 10 July 1910 β 5 December 2002; born Xiu Mao)|url=http://thetmsk.multiply.com/journal/item/9|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714132124/http://thetmsk.multiply.com/journal/item/9|archive-date=14 July 2011|access-date=2 July 2010}}</ref><ref>Callahan, Mary. (2001). ''Burma: Soldiers as State Builders.'' ch. 17. cited in Alagappa, Muthiah. (2001). ''Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia.'' [[Stanford University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-8047-4227-6}}</ref>
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