Ne Win's army shot at university students with
live ammo for the very first, but not the last time.
Scenes from 1962 on Rangoon Univ campus are
reconstructed fictionally in my novel Wolf.
Among the real people that play cameo roles in
my novel as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, junta advisor the Soviet trained cadre Ko Ko
Maung (U Chit Hlaing), Ne Win (of course) and the late (Prince) Chao Tzang
Yawngwe (Eugene Thaike) who was a university student in 1962.
The hero of my novel Mothi Awegoke
"August" also traverses the 1967 anti-Chinese (really rice) riots
instigated by NW (I heard it from a man who "copied stone
inscriptions" that my father brought from Bagan, and my mother allowed to
live in a free-standing small cottage in our garden.) So there's no
question of its truth value. This man, U Aung Myat Kyaw, became a top
BSPP party cadre, so there is no question of the authenticity of what he
saw. He told us the same evening as soon as he got back.
KM Kaung
Washington, DC
7th July, 2020.
