aungsan.com - Bogyoke Aung San of Burma (Myanmar)

Description: Aung San (b. 13 Feb 1915, Natmauk, Burma [now Myanmar]--d. July 19, 1947, Rangoon [now Yangon]), Burmese nationalist leader and assassinated hero who was instrumental in securing Burma's independence from Great Britain. Before World War II Aung San was actively anti-British; he then allied with the Japanese during World War II, but switched to the Allies before leading the Burma's drive for autonomy.

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... Nowadays, all the world over, we cannot confine the definition of a nationality to the narrow bounds of race, religion etc, Nations are extending the rights of their respective communities even to others who may not belong to them except by their mere residence amongst them and their determination to live and be with them. ...

From address delivered at a Meeting of the Anglo-Burman Council at the City Hall, Rangoon, on December 8, 1946)

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