Ne Win resigned as chairman of the ruling Burma Socialist Programme Party on 23 July 1988 at the height of the uprising against his regime, and roughly one year after the United Nations declared Burma a "Least Developed Country".
Ne Win mengundurkan diri sebagai ketua Partai Program Sosialis Birma pada 23 Juli 1988 saat puncak pemberontakan melawan rezim, dan kira-kira satu tahun setelah PBB menyatakan Burma "Negara Tidak Berkembang".