Burma's Leadership- Profiles in Phobia
BY ANDREW SWIFT | MAY 4, 2010
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Astrological paranoia has a long history among Burma's leaders. Former military dictator Ne Win once replaced the country's 100-kyat note with a 90-kyat note because it was a luckier number. But current leader Than Shwe took the practice to a new level in 2006 when he moved the country's capital from Burma's largest city, Yangon, formerly Rangoon, to the jungle backwater of Naypyidaw before running water or electricity were even installed because his chief astrologer reportedly told him that his star was in decline and his government would fall if he did not move. (cont.)

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