Editing Ne Win (section)

=== 1967 anti-Chinese riots ===
{{Main|1967 anti-Chinese riots in Burma}}
[[File:Gen. Ne Win, Burmese P.M. touring Nesher Cement Factory in Ramleh (D783-105).jpg|thumb|228x228px|Gen. Ne Win, Burmese P.M, touring the Nesher Cement Factory in Ramleh.]]In February 1963, the Enterprise Nationalization Law was passed, effectively [[nationalizing]] all major industries and prohibiting the formation of new factories. This law adversely affected many [[industrialists]] and [[Entrepreneurship|entrepreneurs]], especially those without full [[citizenship]].<ref>Murray, ''Chinese Education in South-East Asia'', p. 190</ref> The government's [[economic]] [[nationalization]] program further prohibited foreigners, including the [[non-citizen]] [[Chinese people|Chinese]], from owning land, sending [[Remittance|remittances]], getting [[Business license|business licenses]] and [[Health care|practicing medicine]].<ref>Murray, ''Chinese Education in South-East Asia'', p. 191</ref> Such policies led to the beginnings of a major exodus of [[Burmese Chinese]] to other countries – some 100,000 Chinese left Burma.<ref name="ms">{{cite book|author=Martin Smith|year=1991|title= Burma – Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity|publisher=Zed Books|location=London, New Jersey|pages=39, 98, 153–154, 225–226}}</ref>

Since Ne Win made [[Burmese language|Burmese]] the medium of instruction, many [[Chinese language|Chinese-language]] schools had to be closed. When the [[Chinese embassy]] in [[Rangoon]] distributed [[Mao Zedong|Mao]]'s red books in Burma, many Chinese went out on the streets in support of the Cultural Revolution. They were attacked by [[Burmese citizenship|Burmese citizens]], the most violent [[Riot|riots]] taking place in 1967.<ref name="ms"/> Beginning in 1967 and continuing throughout the 1970s, [[Anti-Chinese sentiment|anti-Chinese]] riots continued to flare up, as many elements in Burma tried to spread the [[Cultural Revolution]]. Many believed they were covertly supported by the government.<ref>{{cite book |last=Steinberg |first=David L. |title=Burma: The State of Myanmar |year=2002 |publisher=Georgetown University Press |isbn=0-87840-893-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/burmastateofmyan0000stei }}</ref> Similarly, [[Chinese shopping centers|Chinese shops]] were looted and set on fire. Public attention was successfully diverted by Ne Win from the uncontrollable [[inflation]], scarcity of consumer items and rising prices of rice. The 1982 Citizenship Law further restricted Burmese citizenship for Burmese Chinese (as it stratified citizenship into three categories: full, associate, and naturalized) and severely limited Burmese Chinese, especially those without full [[citizenship]] and those holding FRCs, from attending professional tertiary schools, including [[medical]], [[engineering]], [[Agriculture|agricultural]] and [[economics]] [[Institution|institutions]].<ref name="ls">{{cite book | author=Mya Than | editor=Leo Suryadinata | year=1997 | title=Ethnic Chinese As Southeast Asians | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |isbn=0-312-17576-0|url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/ethnicchineseass0000unse }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Richter|first=Frank-Jürgen|title=Business networks in Asia: promises, doubts, and perspectives|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1999|page=186|isbn=978-1-56720-302-8}}</ref> During this period, the country's failing economy and widespread discrimination accelerated an emigration of Burmese Chinese out of Burma.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hogwei|first=Fan|date=28 June 2017|title=Anti-Chinese riots rock Rangoon|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/archive/anti-chinese-riots-rock-rangoon/article19156090.ece|access-date=17 November 2020|issn=0971-751X|archive-date=8 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108124944/https://www.thehindu.com/archive/anti-chinese-riots-rock-rangoon/article19156090.ece|url-status=live}}</ref>