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Aung San

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Aung San (1916-1947)

Burmese (Myanmar) politician. He was a founder and leader of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, which led Burma's fight for independence from the UK. During World War II he collaborated first with Japan and then with the UK. In 1947 he became head of Burma's provisional government but was assassinated the same year by political opponents. His daughter Suu Kyi spearheaded a nonviolent pro-democracy movement in Myanmar from 1988.
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Since then, the party's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been repeatedly put under house arrest.
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