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A brief history of Burma’s path from colonial rule to independence and the life and untimely death of its most celebrated hero.
By JARED DOWNING | FRONTIER
THE LEGACY of Bogyoke Aung San transcends political and social lines, and he is the closest figure modern Myanmar has to a founding father.
Yet during his lifetime, the nationalist icon was a communist, a fascist and an anti-fascist, at times railing against the colonial government and at others taking up arms alongside British soldiers.
In the end, he was loyal to nothing and no one apart from a single-minded, immovable dream of an independent Burma.
Aung San the student
Aung San was born in a village in Magway Region in , with the given name Htein Lin.
His father, a lawyer, provided a comfortable but unremarkable middle class upbringing and an education that enabled the young man to attend Rangoon University, where his introspective and solitary demeanour was said to have been offset by an unusual charisma and charm.