13th February 1915 : Born at Natmauk, a township in Magwe district, central Burma.
1932 : Matriculated in the "A" category with distinctions in Burmese and Pali.
1935-36 : Elected to the executive committee of the Rangoon University Students' Union and became the editor of the Students' Union Magazine.
February 1936 : Expelled from the university for publication of the article "Hell Hound at Large" in the union magazine. Expulsion of Ko Aung San and Ko Nu from the university led to the university strike. Later, the government conceded strikers' demands and retracted expulsion orders.
1938 : Elected as president of the Rangoon University Students' Union and the All Burma Student's Union. Appointed as a student representative in "Rangoon University Act Amendment Committee" by the government.
October 1938 : Joined Dohbama Asi-ayone ("We-Burmese" Organization) and became Thakin Aung San.
1938 to August 1940 : Acted as the Head Office General Secretary of Dohbama Asi-ayone.
1938-39 : Countrywide strikes known as Revolution of Year 1300 (Burmese calendar year).
1939 to 1940 : Helped to found Bama-htwet-yat Ghine (Freedom Bloc) and became the general secretary.
March 1940 : Attended Indian National Congress Assembly in Rangar?, India.
1940 : Went underground due to arrest warrant issued by the British government.
August 1940 : Left for Burma and reached Amoy, China and later to Tokyo, Japan.
February 1941 : Came back to Burma with offer of arms and money support from the Japanese for uprising.
1941 : Arrived in Japan for military training together with the first batch of the Thirty Comrades.
December 1941 : Founded Burmese Independence Army (BIA) in Bangkok, Thailand with the help of the Japanese and became chief-of-staff Major-General Aung San (a.k.a. Bo Teza).
March 1942 : Rangoon, capital of Burma, fell to the Japanese Army. The Japanese military administration took over Burma.
July 1942 : Reorganized BIA and become Burma Defence Army (BDA). Appointed as Commander-in-Chief Colonel Aung San.
6th September 1942 : Married with Daw Khin Kyi.
March 1943 : Promoted to become Major-General Aung San of BDA.
1943 : Invited to Japan and decorated by the Emperor with "Order of the Rising Sun".
1st August 1943 : Burma was declared an independent nation and Major-General Aung San became the War Minister.
1943 : BDA was renamed as Burma National Army (BNA).
November 1943 : The British troops hiding in hills of Burma received Aung San's plan to turn his forces against the Japanese.
1st August 1944 : Declared Burma's independence status as fake in independence day anniversary speech.
August 1944 : Founded Anti-Fascist Organization (AFO) and became the military leader of the organization.
27th March 1945 : Burmese troops throughout the country rose up against the Japanese.
15th May 1945 : Met with William Slim of the Fourteenth Army.
15th June 1945 : Victory parade was held in Rangoon. The Burmese forces participated alongside the British and Allied forces.
August 1945 : The Japanese forces surrendered.
August 1945 : AFO was expanded and renamed as Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL).
1945 : BNA was renamed as Patriotic Burmese Forces (PBF).
September 1945 : Signed an agreement to merge PBF with Burma Army under British command during a meeting in Kandy, Ceylon.
October 1945 : Civil government was restored with Dorman-Smith as the governor of Burma.
January 1946 : Elected as president of the AFPFL.
September 1946 : Appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Burma with portfolios for defence and external affairs.
2nd January 1947 : Met with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India in New Delhi, India during his way to London.
27th January 1947 : Signed "Aung San–Attlee Agreement" in London guaranteeing Burma's independence within a year.
12th February 1947 : Signed "Panglong Agreement" with leaders from national groups expressing solidarity and support for united Burma in Panglong, Shan State, Burma.
April 1947 : AFPFL won 196 of 202 seats in the election for a constituent assembly.
June 1947 : Convened series of conferences at the Sorrenta Villa in Rangoon for rehabilitation of the country.
13th July 1947 : Gave last public speech urging Burmese people to mend their ways and urge them for more discipline.
19th July 1947 : Assassinated during the Executive Council meeting together with six other Councillors, including his elder brother, U Ba Win. U Saw, a former Prime Minister, was found guilty of the abetment and executed.
4th January 1948 : Burma regained its independence.
His speeches:
"I hope for the best but I am prepared for the worst."
"Some of us have been going still, consciously or unconsciously, about the same old way of 'dirty' politics. But is politics really 'dirty'? Certainly not. It is not politics which is dirty, but rather the persons who choose to dirty it are dirty. "
"Politics mean your everyday life. It is you in fact; for you are a political animal as Aristotle long ago declared. It is how you eat, sleep, work and live, with which politics is concerned. You may not think about politics. But politics thinks about you. You may shun politics. But politics clings to you always in your home, in your office, in your factories. There, everyday you are doing politics, grappling with it, struggling with it. "
"Possibilities however, are not probabilities, and will not certainly become actualities of themselves. We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat. The ability to avoid defeat and prepare, instead, for success comes to those and only to those who know in their very consciousness what are their strengths and weaknesses and what should be their tasks, national and international, objectives and subjectives, etc., who know, in their knowledge of their strength and limitation, of the factors with them and around them, etc., to use the knowledge they thus have to best advantage and use it actually and energetically. This is what really is meant by "genius" when we talk about it. There is no such thing as "natural" or "divinely gifted" genius. I don't believe in it. "
"What then should New Democracies set tasks for themselves from the international points of view generally and specially. They must:
(1) First endeavour to achieve internal unity of democratic forces in their respective territories;
(2) Strive for, in our part of the world, for closer understanding, increasing co-operation and co-ordination and of mutual efforts for solution of mutual problems with nationalist India and democratic South East Asia (More active interest and support for Indonesia);
(3) Contact and understanding with rest of Asia, particularly China in our case;
(4) Understanding and co-ordination of efforts for the overthrow of world imperialism by all exploited and oppressed peoples of the world together;
(5) More fraternisation with democratic peoples of the world (in our case, the peoples of Britain and America);
(6) More alertness and great vigilance to prevent us falling into the net of imperialist wiles, to abstain from making serious mistakes of which imperialism can take advantage and to try to exploit any mistakes or stupidities or contradictions of imperialism, however little the chances that offer themselves to us.
These, then, are the tasks of New Democracies for the building of a new world of complete freedom, abiding peace and rapid progress."
"I am an internationalist, but an internationalist who does not all own himself to be swept off the firm Earth. I recognise both the virtues and limitations of pure nationalism, I love its virtues, I don't allow myself to be blinded by its limitations, though I knew that it is not easy for the great majority of any nation to get over these limitations. In so far as nationalism encourages us to love our people and love others, or at least encourages us not to hate others, there I am completely with nationalism. In so far as nationalism inculcates in us a sense of national and social justice which calls upon us to fight any system that is oppressive or tyrannical both in our country and the world, there I am completely with nationalism. I hate Imperialism whether British or Japanese or Burmese. "
2 comments:
People might say these could be copied from somewhere. But what people might not say is that not everyone put much effort to read these copied texts like you did. I laud you for going extra miles to read through these and extracted important points for people who has never read these before. Thank you thank you and thank you.
Yes, of course, I did copied from somewhere and put it here with a sincere hope to give something to readers. Just doing something that we can to show someone that he or she is not forgotten. And again, as you know, I am creating this blog for my child. I want her to remember there was a Bogyoke, who did loved people, well educated, prominent to foreigners, and had very diplomatic as well as logic mindset. After all, we all are doing what we can (as you call it, extra miles) to show that we are not fools, neither only busy with my-stuffs but are concerned of things happened, happening and going to happen in our motherland (Like Bogyoke mentioned about Politics).
Thanks for your thanks.
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