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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Chapters: Burmese generals, Ne Win, Maha Thiha Thura, Maha Bandula, Than Shwe, Kyansittha, Aung San, Minyekyawswa, Myawaddy Mingyi U Sa, Tin Oo, Thado Minsaw, San Yu, Kyaw Htin, Ne Myo Thihapate, Aye Ko, Sithu Kyawhtin of Toungoo, Maha Ne Myo, Balamindin, Hla Thaung, Taik Chun, Myat Hein, Aye Cho, Maha Sithu, Teingya Minkhaung, Myint Swe, Smith Dun, Maha Nawrahta, Ne Myo Sithu. Excerpt: Ne Win (Burmese: IPA: , born on 24 May or 14 May 1911 or 10 July 1910 - 5 December 2002) was a politician and military commander. He was Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974 and also head of state from 1962 to 1981. He also was the founder and from 1963 to 1988 the chairman of the Burma Socialist Programme Party, which from 1964 until 1988 was the sole political party in the Burmese nation state. Ne Win's date of birth is not known with certainty. The English language publication Who's Who in Burma published in 1961 by People's Literature House, Rangoon, stated that Ne Win was born on 24 May 1911. The late Dr. Maung Maung stated in the Burmese version of his book Burma and General Ne Win, also published in English, that Ne Win was born on 14 May 1911. However, in a book written in Burmese entitled The Thirty Comrades, the author Kyaw Nyein gave Ne Win's date of birth as 10 July 1910. Kyaw Nyein's date of 1910 can be considered as the more plausible date. First, Kyaw Nyein had access to historical records and he interviewed many surviving members of the Thirty Comrades when he wrote the book in the mid-to late 1990s. (Ne Win was one of the Thirty Comrades who secretly went to undergo military training in Japanese-occupied Hainan Island in the early 1940s for the purpose of fighting for independence from the British). In his book published around 1998 Kyaw Nyein lists the names of the surviving members of the Thirty Comrades whom he had interviewed although Ne Win was not one of them.) Secondly, when Ne Win died on 5 December 2002, the Burmese language newspapers which were allowed to carry a paid obituary stated the age of 'U Ne Win' to be '93 years'. According to Burmese custom a person's age is their age upon their next birthday. Since Ne Win turned 92 in July 2002, when he died in December 2002 he was considered to be 93 years old. Most Western news agencies, based on the May, 1911 birth date, reported that Ne Win was 91 years old but the obi