Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tun bayan samun 'yancin kai, Tatmadaw ta fuskanci manyan tashin hankali na kabilanci, musamman a jihohin Kachin, Kayin, Kayah, da Shan. Janar Ne Win ya karɓi iko da ƙasar a cikin juyin mulkin 1962
, yana ƙoƙarin gina al'umma mai zaman kanta da ake kira Burma Way to Socialism. Bayan tashin hankali na zanga-zangar kasa da kasa a shekarar 1988, sojoji sun amince da zaben 'yanci a shekarar 1990, amma sun yi watsi da nasarar da kungiyar National League for Democracy ta samu kuma ta jefa shugabanta Aung San Suu Kyi a kurkuku. 1990s kuma sun ga tashin hankali tsakanin Buddha da Musulman Rohingya a Jihar Rakhine saboda hare-haren RSO akan sojojin Tatmadaw.