YANGON, July 19 \u2014 Myanmar’s junta chief yesterday attended annual commemorations for the country’s assassinated independence hero for the first time since the military seized power more than four years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Known affectionately as \u201cBogyoke\u201d (General), Aung San led Myanmar’s battle for independence from Britain but was gunned down in July 1947, just months before his dream was finally realised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His daughter Aung San Suu Kyi \u2014 who was two at the time of his death \u2014 became a democracy figurehead, Nobel laureate, and nemesis of the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing attended the wreath-laying ceremony yesterday at the Martyrs\u2019 Mausoleum in Yangon, the former capital, footage broadcast by state media MRTV showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was joined at the monument next to the famous Shwedagon Pagoda by other top military generals commemorating Aung San\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is the first time Min Aung Hlaing has attended the event since he took power in 2021, and comes as his military fights anti-coup forces around the country and prepares to hold an election that has been criticised by international monitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born in 1915 under British colonial rule, Aung San became leader of nationalist fighters in what was then Burma \u2014 making him the founder of Myanmar\u2019s military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He remains a deeply revered figure and a core factor behind his daughter\u2019s enduring popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has been detained since the coup and spent her 80th birthday last month \u2014 and yesterday\u2019s remembrance of her father\u2019s killing \u2014 in junta detention serving a raft of lengthy sentences. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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