San Yu
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President San Yu (3 March 1918 – 30 January 1996) was a Burmese army general and statesman who served as the 5th President of the Union of Burma from 1989 to 1988.
During World War II, he served as a squadron commander in the Burma National Army and participated in the battles with the Japanese.
Military career
San Yu joined Burma Independence Army in 1942 from Prome (now Pyay) and became the second lieutenant of the 3rd Burma Rifle Battalion on January 14th. San Yu soared through the ranks during his service career due to his steadfast loyalty to his superiors. San Yu was promoted to captain and deputy company commander in the same battalion on January 23, 1947, three years after joining the army, and became the Deputy Battalion Commander of 3rd Burma Rifle.
On November 25, 1949, he was granted the command of 1st Karenni Rifle Battalion. He was then sent to the 1st Kachin Rifle Battalion, the 20th Century Battalion's 1st Kachin Rifle Battalion. He served under Brigadier General Ne Win's Northern Regional Military Command in various capacities between 1950 and 1951. On the 17th of September 1952, he was then posted to the Ministry of Defense's Military Appointment General's Office.
He was promoted to colonel on 9 March 1956 and became the Commander of the Northern Regional Military Command. On April 9, 1959, he was promoted to brigadier general. On August 16, 1961, he became commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, commander of Eastern Regional Military Command, and commander of North West Regional Military Command on September 29, 1961.
Brigadier General San Yu became the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff after the 1962 military coup. On the 20th of April 1972, he was elevated to the rank of general and then became Commander in Chief of the Tatmadaw (Armed Forces).
Civilian career
Brigadier General San Yu was a founding member of the General Ne Win's 17 members Union Revolutionary Council (RC), which came to power after the military coup overthrew Prime Minister U Nu's civilian government on March 2nd, 1962. He served as Minister of Finance from 1963 to 1972. He was elected Chairman of the 'New State Constitution Drafting Commission' (NSCDC), which was established by the Revolutionary Council on September 25, 1971. He travelled extensively through Burma from 1971 to 1973 as Chairman of NSCDC during the 'drafting process' of the Socialist Republic of Burma, better known as the 1974 Burmese Constitution.
The Revolutionary Council declared Brigadier General San Yu to General on April 20, 1972. On April 26, 1974, GM San Yu became the general secretary of the Burma Socialist Programme Party, also known as BSPP. He retired from the Army on March 3, 1978. Ne Win declared his intention to resign from the position of 'President of the Union of Burma' following the 'elections' in October 1981.
San Yu was elected President of the Socialist Republic of Burma on November 9, 1981 (Pyithu Hluttaw). He served in that position from 4 March 1988 to 9 November 1981, the second-longest serving president in Burma during the post-independence period. Ne Win was still the chairman of the BSPP, but it was widely believed that he still held the real power.
San Yu was officially elected vice chairman of BSPP in the fifth BSPP Congress, which took place in August 1985. San Yu was listed as Vice Chairman of Burma Socialist Programme Party, President and Chairman of the Council of State from then to his resignation from both the Party and State positions in the media under the terms of the 1974 Constitution.
San Yu and four other Party and State officials had expressed the desire to resign from both Party and State offices on the first day of the BSPP Congress on July 23, 1988. Despite the fact that the BSPP Central Executive Committee and Defense Minister U Wein Lwin, a former U Aye Ko, general secretary and Vice President of the State, and U.S. General Secretary and Secretary of the Council of State, U Sein Lwin, the resignations of Ne Win and San Yu from office and state government positions, the Senate accepted the resignations of Ne Win and San Yu.
San Yu stayed outside of the political parties and lived with his family in his suburban Yangon after his release, during the 1989 pro-democracy protests and military coup. He followed the Buddhist path and died peacefully on January 28, 1996.