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From the 1930s, patriotic intellectuals, mostly college students, led Burma’s national liberation movement. They actively pursued the country’s independence and simultaneously explored ways of developing the economy and political system, religious and political relations, ethnic [...]

General Aung San (1915-1947) father of Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at 10 Downing Street London to negotiate independence for Burma with the British government on 13 January 1947. #myanmar #myanmar #history

General Aung San Vector Portrait by Htun Naung.

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In honor of International Women's Day, TIME looks at some unlikely revolutionaries, from Joan of Arc and Harriet Tubman to Russian punk-rockers.

In the summer of 1932 Eric Williams arrived in England from the British colony of Trinidad. Like most of the island’s population, his family was so poor

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Aung San

General Aung San Vector Portrait