Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Myanmar, wanda aka fi sani da Burma, ya kasance cikin rikice-rikicen siyasa tun lokacin da aka ba shi 'yancin kai daga Birtaniya a Janairu 1948. Tsakanin 1958 da 1960, sojoji sun kafa gwamnatin rikon kwarya ta dan lokaci bisa umarnin U Nu, firaministan kasar da aka zaba ta hanyar dimokiradiyya, don warware rikice-rikicen siyasa. Sojoji da son rai sun dawo da gwamnatin farar hula bayan gudanar da babban zaben Burma na 1960. Kasa da shekaru biyu bayan haka, sojoji suka kwace mulki a juyin mulkin 1962
, wanda a karkashin jagorancin Ne Win, ya hanzarta shekaru 26 na mulkin soja.