This post presents page 2 of 4 of a review by U Nyein Way of Guardian Sein Win's book Split Story. The book was originally published in 1959 and re-published in 1989. The book is available online here, but I have had trouble with the font used in this copy. A photo of guardian U Sein Win is available here.
Vocabulary
အခရာ ။ the main, principal, prominent or essential element; crux (of the matter)
ရာထူး ။ official appointment; designation
မီးမောင်း ။ beam of bright light; limelight; searchlight
စိတ်နေစိတ်ထား ။ attitude, temperament, nature
ရာဇပလ္လင် ။ throne
အရေးအသား ။ writing, composition
မျက်မှောက် ။ under one's very nose (fig), the present
သူရဲကောင်း ။ man of moral and physical courage; hero; gallant
ပုဂ္ဂလ ။ separate, independent, individual
အစချီ ။ to begin
တခမ်းတနား ။ grandly; splendidly; magnificently
ဘုရင်ခံ ။ governor
လျာ ။ to assign
တောင့်တင်း ။ to be well endowed
ပဲ့ ။ to steer (a plane or boat)
ဗွေဆော် ။ first, foremost
ကြေညာ ။ announce; proclaim; declare; notify
လမ်းခင်း ။ to build a road, pave the way
ဆိုးဝါး ။ very bad, very wicked
ကျွန်းဆွယ် ။ peninsula
ရပ်တည်ချက် ။ stand, position
ကန့်ကွက် ။ to object, protest
ငှက်ဆိုး ။ bird of ill-omen; screech owl
အပြီးသတ် ။ finish; end; close; conclude
အနှစ်ချုပ် ။ summarize; make a synopsis; condense
မီးမောင်း ။ a beam of bright light
ခွဲဝေ ။ to distribute
အကွက်ဆင် ။ plot, scheme
ဂိုဏ်းဂဏ ။ group, gang, sect
အသေးစိတ် ။ details, in detail
ရပ်တည် ။ abide by; stand by
အခန်း ။ chapter (of a book)
တပ်မှူး ။ officer commanding a military unit
ညီလာခံ ။ conference
အကျပ်အတည်း ။ difficult situation/crisis
သာဓက ။ evidence, example
Translation
It can be see that what is written down is that in this place, at that time, Prime Minister U Nu who was appointed to the government's principle appointment shone more than other government leaders. If one was to explain here U Nu's political way, U Nu's temperament, and the fortune of U Nu's ass on the throne according to the composition that Guardian U Sein Win wrote, then [it would be said that] "Within contemporary political history, whether hero or villain, U Nu was an important figure," and it can be see that [the book] starts by writing about U Nu's personal political history since the period of striving for independence (Split Story, page 4 to page 19).
In that way, [the author] continues writing magnificently about U Nu's personal political path with the title "Splits in the early period in the AFPFL" (page 20). From then [the author] starts writing about how the Communists were not pleased because U Thein Pe Myint was the only one from the Communist Party appointed as a minister when the ministers were appointed as member of the governing council (Ministerial Cabinet) when Governor "Sahoo Brance" invited the AFPFL (Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League), which was a large national party, to gather and form the governing council, and about how later the Communists were expelled from the AFPFL and went underground, and about the events by which the Communist Party which was very powerful immediately left the grand national coalition, which was the first split of the AFPFL that was in power.
After that [the author] writes that the second split story was the opposition on 24 May 1948 of the Yellow Comrades of the Communists who were part of U Nu's proclaimed "Leftist Unity Plan" in the AFPFL. [The author] writes that the split on this occasion until 1950 paved the way for the very bad split.
[The author] writes that the third split of the grand AFPFL coalition was the split of the Red Socialists and White Socialists within the most powerful Socialist Party which was the sole remaining group within the grand coalition after the Yellow Comrades and Communists split from the AFPFL and went underground.
[The author] writes about Thakin Hla Kywe, Thakin Lwin and Thakin Chit Maung (who was later famous as "Widura Thakin Chit Maung")'s opposition to the AFPFL government's official position on the crisis that emerged on the Korean Peninsula and the expulsion of those three people from the AFPFL, and about the establishment of the Myanmar Worker and Farmer Party and those who were expelled and how it became a powerful opposition party. [The author] writes about this final split which was the last bad omen for the grand AFPFL coalition and about how it was the split that pushed the grand AFPFL coalition to its end.
To summarise, Split Story which Guardian U Sein Win wrote is a story of the split of the grand AFPFL coalition which had worked hard leading the people to get independence and became a large party that got power when [Myanmar] got independence.
As for the events on which are shone an especially bright light, it can be seen that the writing [in the book] shines a bright light in detail on the lack of unity related to the distribution of power after 1950, the schemes, the factional conflicts, and the events during April to October 1958 between the two groups led by U Nu and U Kyaw Nyein.
In this, what is more interesting is what is written about how the military leader General Ne Win and the military thought about and stood by those events and those splits at that time.
According to the composition written by Guardian U Sein Win wrote, it can be seen that [the author] writes that General Ne Win was of the mind set of not joining either of the two factions: the group led by U Nu and the group led by U Kyaw Nyein.
Especially in the chapter titled "The Military and Politics", it is written that "On June 23rd at Migaladon, a conference of military officers was held during the growing politics crisis. The military head General Ne Win firmly stated that with the military's complete faith in democracy it would faithfully follow the constitution..." (page 147).
However, the issues concerning the military and U Kyaw Nyein's faction is something that everyone present at that time knows. Especially, at that time during the election administered by the caretaker government there was evidence that the military threatened and forced some quarters and villages to vote for U Kyaw Nyein and U Ba Swe's group (which continued as the Swe-Nyein faction).
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