Na Wa Ta

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Na Wa Ta is the Burmese-language acronym for Myanmar’s former military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council, which ruled the country after the 1988 coup.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf acronym
military junta
alsoKnownAs Tatmadaw
surface form: Myanmar military junta

SLORC
State Law and Order Restoration Council
cameToPowerBy 1988 military coup in Myanmar
country Myanmar
surface form: Burma

Myanmar
exercisedPowerOver executive branch of Myanmar
judicial system in Myanmar
legislative authority in Myanmar
fullName State Law and Order Restoration Council
governanceLegitimacy not democratically elected
governanceStyle military rule by decree
governedTerritory Myanmar
surface form: Union of Myanmar
governingBodyType military council
humanRightsRecord widely criticized
ideology military authoritarianism
internationalReputation pariah regime
languageOfAcronym Burmese
notableEventContext 1988 pro-democracy uprising in Myanmar
notableLeader Saw Maung
Than Shwe
notableOppositionFigure Aung San Suu Kyi
opposedBy Myanmar pro-democracy movement
surface form: Burmese pro-democracy movement

National League for Democracy
policyFocus control of political opposition
law and order restoration
suppression of dissent
politicalPosition military government
precededBy socialist one-party government of Burma
replacedGovernmentType single-party socialist state
role ruling military council
shortName SLORC
subjectOf human rights reports
international sanctions
successor State Peace and Development Council

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