 In the late 1960s, due to Ne Win's propaganda that the PRC was to blame for crop failures, and the increasing number of ethnic Chinese students supporting Chairman Mao Zedong, by carrying the Quotatians from his books, anti-Chinese riots broke out in June 1967.At the same time, many Sino-Burmese were influenced by the Cultural Revolution in China and began to wear Mao badges.Shops and homes were ransacked and burned.