Communist Party of Burma
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The Communist Party of Burma, also known as the Burma Communist Party, is an underground Marxist-Leninist and Maoist in Myanmar. It is the oldest existing political party in the country.
"They have gone back": Members of the CPB's delegation return to their bases after failed peace talks, c. November 1963.
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Thakin Ba Hein
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Aung San
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Aung San was a Burmese politician, independence activist and revolutionary. He was instrumental in Myanmar's struggle for independence from British rule, but he was assassinated just six months before
Communist Party of Burma
…The CPB was established in a secret meeting attended by seven men in a small room in Barr Street, Rangoon, on 15 August 1939. The attendees were Thakin Aung San, Thakin Ba Hein, Thakin Bo, Thakin Hla Pe (Bo Let Ya), Thakin Soe, Yèbaw Ba Tin (H. N. Goshal), and Yèbaw Tun Maung (Amar Nag). An armed wing was formed…
Aung San, c. 1940s
Portrait of the 1936 editorial committee of the magazine Oway
Aung San in Burma Defence Army uniform with Daw Khin Kyi after their marriage in 1942
Aung San as minister of defense, 1943