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U Thant's Funeral Crisis or U Thant Crisis ((ビルマ語:ဦးသန့် အရေးအခင်း)) was a series of protests and riots that took place in Burma (Myanmar) in December 1974. The spontaneous protests were in response to the military government's refusal to give U Thant, the third Secretary-General of the United Nations a state funeral. The government declared martial law and violently crushed the protests. ==Background== U Thant, a close friend and confidant of U Nu, became the third Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1961. In 1962, Gen. Ne Win seized power from U Nu's democratically elected government. Because of his international stature, U Thant was the only senior member of U Nu's government not to be sacked. U Thant and Ne Win "probably never cared much for each other" but the complete break came in 1969 when U Nu, now in exile, called for the overthrow of Ne Win's government in front of the UN press corps inside the UN Building in New York. According to Thant Myint-U, a grandson of U Thant, the press conference was arranged entirely by U Nu and without permission from U Thant who was on a mission in Africa at the time. It was the first time that a call for the overthrow of a UN member state government had been made inside the UN. U Thant was aghast; he told U Nu that the action was totally inappropriate. But the damage had been done. Gen. Ne Win was furious, and sure that U Thant had been conniving with U Nu. The general told his men to consider U Thant an "enemy of the state." U Thant flew to Yangon to explain but Ne Win refused to see him. The rancor was such that U Thant, still officially the country's top diplomat, had difficulty renewing his passport.〔 U Thant remained in New York after his retirement from the UN in 1971 until his death on 25 November 1974 from lung cancer. Ne Win had not forgiven him. When U Thant's body was brought back to Yangon, the general refused to accord the late diplomat any special honours, let alone a state funeral.〔 The body arrived at Yangon on 1 December 1974, and brought to the Kyaikkasan Grounds for public viewing before a planned burial at the Kyandaw Cemetery on 5 December.
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