General Aung San

Independence Hero of Burma

General Aung San (born in 13.2.1915, assassinated in 19.7.1947), a national independent hero was a president of All Burma Student Union in 1938, later joined to the "Dobama Asi-ayone". In 1940, he and Hla Myaing (later known as Yan Aung) left Burma to seek Chinese Communist contacts, but Japanese agent brought them to Japan and later "30 Comrades", the core of Burmese Independence Army, were trained in Japan to resist British imperialism.

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( Excerpt from "Aung San of Burma" by Aung San Suu Kyi )

He has described his thinking in 1940 thus: "Personally though I felt that international propaganda and assistance of our cause was necessary, the main work, I thought, must be done in Burma which must be the mobilization of the masses for the national struggle.

I had a rough plan of my own-a country-wide mass resistance movement against British imperialism on a progressive scale...co-extensive with international national; developments in the form of series of local and partial strikes of industrial and rural workers leading to general and rent strike finally, also all forms of militant propaganda such as demonstrations and peoples' marches leading to finally to mass civil disobedience also economic campaign against British imperialism in the form of boycott of British goods leading to the mass non-payment of taxes, to be supported by developing guerilla action against military and civil and police outposts, line of communications, ect., leading finally to the complete paralysis of the British administration in Burma when we should be able along with the developing world situation to make the final and ultimate bid for the capture of power."

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