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Burmese people call him “Bogyoke Aung San”; “Bogyoke” is a Burmese term for General.

Ko Aung San and other members of Students’ Union (1936)

Ko Aung San and other members of the Oway Magazine committee (1936)

Ko Aung San, President of All Burma Students’ Union

Bo Letyar, Bo Setkya and Bo Teza (1941)

Bogyoke Aung San as a member of the Burma National Army. (April 1942)

Wedding Photograph of Bogyoke Aung San and Daw Khin Kyi. (September 1942)

Burma’s delegation to Japan (1943), General Aung San (far right)

Bogyoke Aung San with Kachin Ethnic nationals (1946 December)

Bogyoke Aung San in London. (January 1947)

Bogyoke Aung San with Sir Hubert Rance. (January 1947)

General Aung San in London (1947)

General Aung San and British prime minister Clement Atlee in London, January 1947

Thakin Aung San making a speech (1947)

Bogyoke Aung San’s statue in Rangoon, Burma

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Bogyoke Aung San and Daw Khin Kyi with their first child, Aung San Oo

Bogyoke Aung San and his family (1946)

Bogyoke Aung San Family (1947), Daw Khin Kyi (wife), Aung San Oo (eldest son), Aung San Linn

(second son) and Aung San Suu Kyi.

Bogyoke Aung San, Daw Su (his mother), Daw Khin Kyi and their children (Aung San Oo, Aung

San Lin, and Aung San Suu Kyi). (April 1947)

Bogyoke Aung San and his three children

Daw Khin Kyi and her three children

Daw Aung San Suu kyi in front of her father’s picture

Aung San Oo (C), elder brother of Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and

his wife Lei Lei Nwe Thein (R) arrives to pay respect to his father, Burma’s late national hero

General Aung San, on the occassion of the Martyrs’ Day in Yangon, 19 July 2007. Burma’s military

rulers refused to allow Aung San Suu Kyi to attend a ceremony marking the assassination of her

father 60 years ago.

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13th February 1915

Born at Natmauk, a township in Magwe district, central Burma.

1932 Matriculated in the “A” category with distinctions in Burmese and Pali.

1935-36 Elected to the executive committee of the Rangoon University Students’

Union and became the editor of the Students’ Union Magazine.

February 1936 Expelled from the university for publication of the article “Hell Hound at

Large” in the union magazine. Expulsion of Ko Aung San and Ko Nu from

the university led to the university strike. Later, the government

conceded strikers’ demands and retracted expulsion orders.

1938 Elected as president of the Rangoon University Students’ Union and the

All Burma Student’s Union. Appointed as a student representative in

“Rangoon University Act Amendment Committee” by the government.

October 1938 Joined Dohbama Asi-ayone (”We-Burmese” Organization) and became

Thakin Aung San.

1938 to August 1940 Acted as the Head Office General Secretary of Dohbama Asi-ayone.

1938-39 Countrywide strikes known as Revolution of Year 1300 (Burmese

calendar year).

1939 to 1940 Helped to found Bama-htwet-yat Ghine (Freedom Bloc) and became the

general secretary.

March 1940 Attended Indian National Congress Assembly in Rangar?, India.

1940 Went underground due to arrest warrant issued by the British

government.

August 1940 Left for Burma and reached Amoy, China and later to Tokyo, Japan.

February 1941 Came back to Burma with offer of arms and money support from the

Japanese for uprising.

1941 Arrived in Japan for military training together with the first batch of the

Thirty Comrades.

December 1941 Founded Burmese Independence Army (BIA) in Bangkok, Thailand with

the help of the Japanese and became chief-of-staff Major-General Aung

San (a.k.a. Bo Teza).

March 1942 Rangoon, capital of Burma, fell to the Japanese Army. The Japanese

military administration took over Burma.

July 1942 Reorganized BIA and become Burma Defence Army (BDA). Appointed as

Commander-in-Chief Colonel Aung San.

6th September 1942 Married with Daw Khin Kyi.

March 1943 Promoted to become Major-General Aung San of BDA.

1943 Invited to Japan and decorated by the Emperor with “Order of the Rising

Sun”.

1st August 1943 Burma was declared an independent nation and Major-General Aung

San became the War Minister.

1943 BDA was renamed as Burma National Army (BNA).

November 1943 The British troops hiding in hills of Burma received Aung San’s plan to

turn his forces against the Japanese.

1st August 1944 Declared Burma’s independence status as fake in independence day

anniversary speech.

August 1944 Founded Anti-Fascist Organization (AFO) and became the military leader

of the organization.

27th March 1945 Burmese troops throughout the country rose up against the Japanese.

15th May 1945 Met with William Slim of the Fourteenth Army.

15th June 1945 Victory parade was held in Rangoon. The Burmese forces participated

alongside the British and Allied forces.

August 1945 The Japanese forces surrendered.

August 1945 AFO was expanded and renamed as Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom

League (AFPFL).

1945 BNA was renamed as Patriotic Burmese Forces (PBF).

September 1945 Signed an agreement to merge PBF with Burma Army under British

command during a meeting in Kandy, Ceylon.

October 1945 Civil government was restored with Dorman-Smith as the governor of

Burma.

January 1946 Elected as president of the AFPFL.

September 1946 Appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Burma with

portfolios for defence and external affairs.

2nd January 1947 Met with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India in New Delhi, India

during his way to London.

27th January 1947

Signed “Aung San�Attlee Agreement” in London guaranteeing Burma’s

independence within a year.

12th February 1947 Signed “Panglong Agreement” with leaders from national groups

expressing solidarity and support for united Burma in Panglong, Shan

State, Burma.

April 1947 AFPFL won 196 of 202 seats in the election for a constituent assembly.

June 1947 Convened series of conferences at the Sorrenta Villa in Rangoon for

rehabilitation of the country.

13th July 1947 Gave last public speech urging Burmese people to mend their ways and

urge them for more discipline.

19th July 1947 Assassinated during the Executive Council meeting together with six

other Councillors, including his elder brother, U Ba Win.

U Saw, a former Prime Minister, was found guilty of the abetment and

executed.

4th January 1948

Burma regained its independence.

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General Aung San (Bogyoke Aung San)Aung San (Bogyoke Aung San)Aung San (Bogyoke Aung San)Aung San (Bogyoke Aung San) (Burmese: ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း ; MLCTS: buil hkyup aung

hcan:; IPA: [bòʊdʒoʊt àʊn sán]); February 13, 1915 – July 19, 1947) was a Burmese

revolutionary, nationalist, freedom fighter and founder of the modern Burmese army, the

Tatmadaw.

He was instrumental in bringing about Burma’s independence from British colonial rule, but was

assassinated six months before its final achievement. He is recognized as the leading architect of

independence, and the founder of the Union of Burma. Affectionately known as “Bogyoke”

(General), Aung San is still widely admired by the Burmese people, and his name is still invoked in

Burmese politics to this day.

Aung San is the father of Nobel Peace laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi who has

been under house arrest for the past 17 years. She began her 18th year on May 17, 2008..

To read more about the biography of General Aung San, please click the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San

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