Sein Lwin

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Sein Lwin was a Burmese military officer and brief president of Myanmar in 1988, widely known for his brutal suppression of pro-democracy protests, earning him the nickname "Butcher of Rangoon."

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Label Occurrences
Sein Lwin canonical 2

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Burmese military officer
human
politician
activeInPeriod 20th century
allegiance Union of Burma NERFINISHED
Union of Myanmar NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath natural causes
countryOfCitizenship Burma NERFINISHED
Myanmar NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1924-02-27
dateOfDeath 2004-04-09
ethnicGroup Bamar NERFINISHED
gender male
knownFor repression of student protests
violent crackdown in Rangoon
memberOfPoliticalParty Burma Socialist Programme Party NERFINISHED
militaryBranch Myanmar Armed Forces NERFINISHED
Tatmadaw NERFINISHED
militaryRank colonel
nickname Butcher of Rangoon NERFINISHED
notableEvent 8888 Uprising NERFINISHED
notableFor brutal suppression of pro-democracy protests in 1988
role in the 8888 Uprising crackdown
notableWork implementation of harsh security measures against demonstrators
occupation head of state
soldier
officeEndTime 1988-08-12
officeStartTime 1988-07-27
placeOfBirth British Burma NERFINISHED
Paungdale NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Myanmar NERFINISHED
Yangon NERFINISHED
politicalIdeology Burmese socialism
positionHeld President of Burma NERFINISHED
President of Myanmar
member of the Burma Socialist Programme Party
precededBy San Yu NERFINISHED
religion Buddhism
residence Yangon NERFINISHED
succeededBy Maung Maung NERFINISHED

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sein Lwin
Description of subject: Sein Lwin was a Burmese military officer and brief president of Myanmar in 1988, widely known for his brutal suppression of pro-democracy protests, earning him the nickname "Butcher of Rangoon."

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maung Maung precededBy Sein Lwin
Saw Maung predecessor Sein Lwin