Tatmadaw Government (1988–2011)

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The Tatmadaw Government (Burmese: တပ်မတော်အစိုးရ), officially the Government of the Union of Myanmar (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်အစိုးရအဖွဲ့), was a totalitarian provisional military government that had ruled Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) since the collapse of the constitutional socialist regime in 1988 until the new constitutional government took power in 2011. Direct military rule was established on 18 September 1988 when the military junta, namely the State Law and Order Restoration Council (Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော် ငြိမ်ဝပ်ပိပြားမှု တည်ဆောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့; abbreviated SLORC or နဝတ), came into power. The SLORC was dissolved and the junta was reconstituted as the State Peace and Development Council (Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ; abbreviated SPDC or နအဖ) on 15 November 1997. On 30 March 2011, Senior General Than Shwe, the SPDC Chairman, signed a decree that officially dissolved the SPDC, ending the direct military rule that had lasted for more than...

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