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.
