Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the country’s military commander-in-chief attended a commemorative ceremony on Tuesday in the commercial capital Yangon honoring the fallen heroes of the country’s independence movement, including her father, General Aung San.
The Martyrs’ Day national holiday is observed annually to commemorate the deaths of Aung San and seven other leaders of the pre-independence interim government who were assassinated on July 19, 1947, a year before Myanmar, then called Burma, gained its independence from British colonial rule.
On this day, top-level government officials visit the Martyrs’ Mausoleum, dedicated to Aung San and the others who were killed, near the northern gate of the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda in the commercial capital Yangon. (Courtesy of rfa.org)
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