Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An dakatar da dimokiradiyya a kasar bayan juyin mulki
a shekarar 1962. Rashin tabbas da hargitsi sun share fagen gwamnatin kishin kasa ta Burma don karbe iko. Daga 1962 zuwa 1988, Jam'iyyar Burma Socialist Programme Party ce ke mulkin ƙasar a matsayin ƙasa mai jam'iyya guda da ke jagorantar hanyar Burma zuwa Socialism. Sabbin shugabannin Burma sun mai da Burma ta zama Jamhuriyar Socialist tare da warewa, da kuma fifikon Burma. Sabuwar da aka samu na kishin kasa na Burma ya sanya mafi yawan Bamar a gaba, yana kawar da hadin kan da aka fara ta hanyar yarjejeniyar Pin-Lone. Ƙari ga haka, an daɗa nuna ƙiyayya ta wurin tilasta wa mutane daga addinai dabam-dabam su zauna tare. Masarautun Bamar sun kasance kusan Buddha ne kawai a baya. Yawancin kabilu a cikin jihar Shan, Kayin, Kayar, da Chin sun yi amfani da nasu nau'ikan Animism, yayin da mutanen addinin Islama ke zaune tare da Buddha a jihar Arakan (yanzu Rakhine). Haɗuwa da dukkanin ƙungiyoyi daban-daban a cikin Indiya ta Biritaniya ya zurfafa rarrabuwar addini. Motsi na mutane a ƙetaren iyakar da mulkin mallaka ya haifar ya ƙara babban rukuni na mabiyan Hindu zuwa cakuda. Yaƙin neman sauyawar da Kiristocin Katolika suka yi da kuma gasa da 'yan mulkin mallaka na Methodist sun ƙara raba ƙananan ƙungiyoyi kamar Karen da Kachin a cikin kansu. Fitowar mulkin mallaka ya haifar da ƙiyayya da ke ci gaba da gina juna. Mutuwar Aung San, da kuma shugabannin da suka biyo baya sun tabbatar da rikice-rikice na dindindin tsakanin kowane rukunin al'adu da na addini. Amma Tashin hankalin 1988 ya ƙarfafa tashin hankali na zamantakewa, siyasa, da na jama'a da ke damun ƙasar tun daga lokacin.