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U Aung San requested the nation to vote for his front's candidates claiming the nation faced two roads_ freedom of a longer life of slavery.
U Aung San moved his basic points for the new constitution at the Constituent Assembly on June 16 and the Assembly, continuously pushed for Union and States powers; The Judiciary; fundamental Rights and other clauses.
U Aung San asked the nation for 100 percent support for his fight for freedom and as the nation heeded his demand, Burma became an independent nation peacefully.
www.ibiblio.org /freeburma/assk/assk3-4b.html   (993 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search View - Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw, born in 1945, leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and the restoration of democracy in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), and Nobel laureate.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Yangon (formerly known as Rangoon) and educated in India and England, where she attended the University of Oxford.
Her mother was a prominent diplomat; her father, U Aung San, is widely acknowledged as the founder of modern Myanmar.
encarta.msn.com /text_761579478__1/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi.html   (634 words)

  
 Aung San Suu Kyi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The daughter of assassinated (1947) nationalist general U Aung San, who is regarded as the founder of modern Myanmar, she lived outside the country after 1960.
Returning in 1988 to care for her dying mother, she joined the opposition to U Ne Win and became leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD).
Her outspoken criticism of the military leaders of Myanmar and the memory of her father made her a symbol of popular desire for political freedom and a focus of opposition to the dictatorship.
www.bartleby.com /65/au/AungSanS.html   (235 words)

  
 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest.
U Aung San Oo, who lives in the United States, had a previous petition to secure a half share in the family property dismissed by a Burmese court in January.
U Aung San Oo, an estranged elder brother living in the United States and holding a U.S. passport, had previously asked in early April for half the property and the right to administer it.
www.burmabureaugermany.com /index.php?id=27   (3070 words)

  
 Chin Human Rights Organization - CHRO - DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT TOWARDS FEDERAL UNION:
U Aung San, however, was not unduly troubled by the accusations of his political opponents and plunged straight into negotiation with pre-colonial independent nationalities such as the Chin, Kachin and Shan.
U Chan Htun's version of the Union Constitution was promulgated by the Constituent Assembly of the interim government of Burma in September 1947.
The revision of Aung San's version of the Union Constitution thus proved to be the end of his policy for a secular state and pluralism in Burma, which eventually led to the promulgation of Buddhism as the state religion of the Union of Burma in 1961.
www.chro.org /index.php/facts_and_arguments/35   (7351 words)

  
 Degenerate - A New Generation of Madness - 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
U Nu was a classmate of Aung San at the University of Rangoon, but dropped out to support his family as a school teacher.
Yet this was another trait of U Nu, and it wasn't jealousy but a self-confidence that left him in awe of no man. Following Aung San's assassination, the mantle seemed to fall naturally to the strange monk-politician to steer the country through the dark seas of early independence.
Now U Nu was faced with a challenge that Aung San never had to face: how to put all the high-minded beliefs of their student days into practice.
www.diacritica.com /degenerate/1/burma3.html   (1496 words)

  
 The Hindu : U Aung San Oo back in contention
U Aung San Oo of Myanmar won praise from none other than Devendra Joshi.
Frills is not something the lad indulges in, and his potting potential came to the fore especially in the second and third frames wherein Singapore's Ronnie Chua Poh Teck was left twitching his thumb in his corner.
Aung's best of an unfinished 89 came in the third frame.
www.hindu.com /2002/03/21/stories/2002032106071900.htm   (505 words)

  
 Aung San   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Aung San (February 13, 1915 - July 19, 1947) was a Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician.
In July, Aung San re-organised the BIA as the Burma Defence Army (BDA).
Aung San was appointed war minister, and his army underwent another rename, to the Burma National Army.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Aung-San.htm   (949 words)

  
 Democratic Voice of Burma
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer : It was to cross-examine one of the witnesses from U Aung San Oo.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer : We are cross-examining the witnesses from the litigant.
U Aung San Oo (the older brother of Aung San Suu Kyi) who is a citizen of the USA has been suing his sister Daw Aung San Suu Kyi since 2000 for the right to inherit half of the family’s property including the home she is living in Rangoon.
www.dvb.no /english/news.php?id=1221   (336 words)

  
 Aung San Suu Kyi
U Hla Than is certainly not the first prisoner of conscience to have died in the custody of SLORC.
U Maung Ko, 52 at the time of his death, was a civil servant who worked in the Rangoon Port Commissioner's Office before he entered the democracy movement in 1988 as the general secretary of the Dock Workers' Union.
U Maung Ko was arrested and taken to Insein Jail during the crackdown on democracy activists in October 1990.
www.aappb.net /suukyi38.html   (660 words)

  
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Aung Zeya was a leading member of the democracy movement in 1988-89, becoming Joint General Secretary of the Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS).
Aung Zeya was first arrested on 18 July 1989, apparently for his part in trying to organize a peaceful march to the Martyrs Mausoleum in Rangoon to commemorate the assassination of Aung San, who led Burma to independence in 1948.
Aung Zeya was released on 20 May 1992 under Declaration number 11/92 which states that people not deemed a threat to state security will be freed.
www.angelfire.com /al/homepageas/zeya.html   (445 words)

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - San   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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 Aung San Suu Kyi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Among the group of Burmese cadets with whom U Lwin went to Japan for military training in 1943 was a young man who became a particularly close friend and later, his brother-in-law: U Kyi Maung.
U Kyi Maung was one of the first students to be struck down, hit in three places on the head.
When U Tin U and I were placed under house arrest in July 1989, the Executive Committee of the NLD decided on collective leadership, but it would not be wrong to say that U Kyi Maung was the man who led the party to its resounding victory in the elections of 1990.
www.aappb.net /suukyi19.html   (899 words)

  
 Burmese rest high hopes on new government in India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The latter saw that the former was without a coat in the bitter winter and gave his coat to U Aung San.
U Aung San, wearing that coat became the national symbol.
U Nu fled the country and in exile founded the resistance movement against the military dictatorship.
www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2004/news-in-jun/04-jun04-07.htm   (1377 words)

  
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The woman, Aung San Suu Kyi, was visiting from her home in England to tend to her sick mother when pro-democracy protests swelled throughout the country in August 1988 despite a brutal response by the military that took thousands of lives.
On Sunday, Aung San Suu Kyi will mark her 60th birthday under house arrest, where she has spent most of the intervening years, in an increasingly dilapidated house, more cut off than ever from contacts outside her weed-filled compound in Yangon, the capital.
Aung San Suu Kyi, as the daughter of the country's founding hero, U Aung San, has held a nearly mystical appeal for people desperate to regain their freedoms and their self-respect.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=8578983&postID=111913745101965815   (1148 words)

  
 Aung San Suu Kyi: Fearless, powerful and beautiful - one of the biggest political stars at MondoStars.com
Aung San Suu Kyi is a peace activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar.
Aung San Suu Kyi (pronounced Aung Sawn Sue Chee) was born the third child to General Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army, and Ma Khin Kyi, senior nurse of Rangoon General Hospital.
Suu Kyi's eldest brother, Aung San Lin, is a U.S. resident.
www.mondostars.com /politics/aungsansuukyi.html   (1182 words)

  
 portland imc - 2003.06.07 - URGENT situation in Burma, 100's killed, Suu Kyi 'injured in violent protests'
U Saw Khin, MP elect from Myin Gyan township and who accompanied with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was seriously injured during the attack.
U Tin Aung, MP elect from North-Western Mandalay and who accompanied with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was assumed to be dead.
When Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who was still in Budalin, heard about the incident, she requested U Tun Myaing, secretary of Sagaing Division and U Aung San, chairman of Budalin NLD, to go to Monywa to inquire into the incident.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/06/266110.shtml   (1902 words)

  
 February 12 marks 57th Anniversary of Union Day in Burma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
On this date in 1947, the Panglong (Pinlon) Agreement was signed between Burma’s national leader, U Aung San, and the patriotic ethnic nationality leaders for self-administration and self-determination.
However, after the assassination of U Aung San in July 1947 the nation was beset with unrest.
Part and parcel of this roadmap are the demands for a nationwide ceasefire and the release of all political prisoners in Burma, especially the pro-democracy opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi of the National League for Democracy (NLD).
www.iidnet.org /adv/burma/2004/union_day_04.htm   (626 words)

  
 Democratic Voice of Burma
According to the agreement, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is allowed to live in the house without limitation and the lawsuit of U Aung San Oo is invalid, argue her lawyers.
U Kyi Win : The two - brother and sister, U Aung San Oo and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, have an agreement on a paper, dated 5.1.89.
In the agreement, U Aung San Oo agrees that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi could stay in the house as long as she is happy.
www.dvb.no /english/news.php?id=1998   (497 words)

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Ba Maw
After the war, the returning British discovered that the AFPFL, led by Aung San, had nearly monopolized indigenous political power.
Aung San, U (1915-1947), Burmese nationalist leader and hero of Burma's independence struggle.
Together with U Nu, he led the so-called Thakin student...
au.encarta.msn.com /Ba_Maw.html   (89 words)

  
 Daw Suu’s Family Inheritance Case ( DVB ) January 21, 2003
It is reported that the inheritance case of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is being heard in Rangoon today at the central court.
A: It was to cross-examine one of the witnesses from U Aung San Oo.
U Aung San Oo [the older brother of Aung San Suu Kyi] who is a citizen of the USA has been suing his sister Daw Aung San Suu Kyi since 2000 for the right to inherit half of the family’s property including the home she is living in Rangoon.
www.burmatoday.net /newsarchive_03/dvb/030121_daw_su_dvb.htm   (246 words)

  
 U Aung San - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about U Aung San   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Imprisoned for his nationalist activities while a student in Rangoon, Aung escaped to Japan in 1940.
He returned to lead the Burma Independence Army, which assisted the Japanese invasion in 1942, and became defence minister in the puppet government set up by the Japanese.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /U+Aung+San   (205 words)

  
 Letter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
June 19, 2005 is the 60th birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the main opposition of Burma.
Aung San Suiu Kyi is the symbol of Burma's democracy and the daughter of the father of the nation, U Aung San.
As with Vaclav Havel in Czechoslovakia and Nelson Mandela in South Africa, fate has chosen Aung San Suu Kyi to be the symbol voice of an oppressed people in her case, Burma, now Myanmar.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/jun/18/18062005lt.htm   (531 words)

  
 Suu Kyi absent from Myanmar ceremonies - Boston.com - Asia - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Aung San was gunned down along with six Cabinet ministers and two officials on July 19, 1947, six months before Myanmar gained independence from Britain.
Kyi Aung led the official ceremony, placing flowers at Gen. Aung San's tomb as military buglers played the "Last Post." The national flag was flown at half-staff.
Suu Kyi's estranged elder brother, U.S. citizen Aung San Oo, sent a representative on behalf of the family to lay a wreath.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/19/suu_kyi_absent_from_ceremony_for_father?mode=PF   (518 words)

  
 CNN.com - Suu Kyi held in notorious jail - Jun. 20, 2003
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being held in one of the country's most notorious prisons, CNN has confirmed through the U.S. Embassy in the country.
Little has been known about Aung San Suu Kyi's whereabouts since she was detained on May 30 after supporters of her party, the National League for Democracy, clashed with a pro-government group in the north of the country.
"Despite claims that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is being held for her protection, she is being held under provisions that fail to protect her basic human rights and deem her a threat to state sovereignty and security," the organization said.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/06/20/myanmar.prison   (799 words)

  
 LEGAL ISSUES ON BURMA JOURNAL No
The new lawsuit that U Aung San Oo has filed against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is a suit filed after the Court had dismissed the first suit for inheritance.
Unmistakable, the victim of the permission is the acclaimed leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is engaged in mortal political combat with the authority that has given the permission to sue her.
U Aung San Oo did not do either and gave his sister a leeway to extricate her from the trap laid.
www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/LIOB08-lawsuit.htm   (898 words)

  
 Test of Wills: the Burmese Captive Who Will Not Budge - New York Times
The woman, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was visiting from her home in England to tend to her sick mother when pro-democracy protests swelled throughout the country in August 1988 despite a brutal response by the military that took thousands of lives.
Aung San Suu Kyi will mark her 60th birthday under house arrest, where she has spent most of the intervening years, in an increasingly dilapidated house, more cut off than ever from contacts outside her weed-filled compound.
As the daughter of the country's founding hero, U Aung San, she held a nearly mystical appeal for people desperate to regain their freedoms and self-respect.
www.nytimes.com /2005/06/19/international/asia/19myanmar.html?ex=1276833600&en=e1d8728ea66c051d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (836 words)

  
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The individuals named Ko Aung Myint Oo and U Khin Aung who work at Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's office were taken to custody by the military intelligence officers for political reasons.
In an odd turn of history, the most prominent personality in the museum is U Aung San, the assassinated leader of the independence movement and the father of the current junta's chief critic, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the country's pro-democracy movement.
Aung San Suu Kyi was surprised to hear of the giant portrait of her father in the museum and the glass case displaying his uniform, boots, gloves, sword and briefcase.
www.burmanet.org /bnn_archives/1996/bnn0996n519.txt   (4568 words)

  
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YANGON — Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had her period of house arrest extended by another year, her opposition party and officials said yesterday.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the party, has been held since May 2003 by the military junta following a clash between her......
Business Day: Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest extended YANGON — Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had her period of house arrest extended by another year, her opposition party and officials said yesterday.
www.biz-day.com /mail_to_friend/hwnhv-y   (188 words)

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