Thakin Than Tun
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Thakin Than Tun was a Burmese politician and leader of the Communist Party of Burma from 1945 until his assassination in 1968. He was the brother-in-law of Myanmar's independence leader Aung San and t
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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
Thakin Than Tun
…and leader of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) from 1945 until his assassination in 1968. He was the brother-in-law of Myanmar's independence leader Aung San and the uncle of the former State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi. Than Tun was born in 1911 in Kanyutkwin, British Burma. He married Khin Khin…
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