The U Thant funeral crisis or U Thant crisis ( Burmese : ဦးသန့် အရေးအခင်း ) was a series of protests Attack and riots in the then-Burmese capital of Yangon triggered Causation by the death of U Thant , the third Secretary-General of the United Nations on 25 November 1974 .

The U Thant funeral crisis or U Thant crisis ( Burmese : ဦးသန့် အရေးအခင်း ) was a series of protests Attack and riots in the then-Burmese capital of Yangon triggered Causation by the death of U Thant , the third Secretary-General of the United Nations on 25 November 1974 .

The U Thant funeral crisis or U Thant crisis ( Burmese : ဦးသန့် အရေးအခင်း ) was a series of protests Attack and riots in the then-Burmese capital of Yangon triggered Causation by the death of U Thant , the third Secretary-General of the United Nations on 25 November 1974 .

The students , Thant 's family , and the government came to an agreement to bury the body in a new mausoleum next to the Shwedagon Pagoda , but before this could happen Presence , another group of student activists took Removing the body to a mausoleum they had constructed at the site of the demolished RASU Students Union building .