right during that period, was detained. Ba Swe and U Nu, his former senior colleague and later adversary, were released on 27 October 1966. On the day of their release, both Ba Swe and U Nu were driven to the office of the Revolutionary Council Chairman General Ne Win where Ne Win told them that if they wished to go on a pilgrimage either within the country or abroad, the government would bear their expenses. Ne Win also suggested that both might wish to go abroad for a 'medical check-up'. Ba Swe, together with U Nu and Kyaw Nyein, was among the thirty-three-men 'Internal Unity Advisory Board' that Ne Win's Revolutionary Council formed on 2 December 1968. The Board was to report to the RC by 31 May 1969 on ways of promoting national unity. Ba Swe died in Rangoon in December 1987. References 1915 births 1987 deaths People from Tanintharyi Region Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League politicians Burma Socialist Party politicians University of Yangon alumni Burmese people of World War II Defence ministers of Myanmar