Word: aung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Karens' rivals include: 1) the government, which holds a few beleaguered cities and some areas in the far north and south; 2) the Red Flag (Trotskyite) Communists; 3) the White Flag (Stalinist) Communists; and 4) the White Band (People's Volunteer Organization), followers of assassinated Premier Aung San (TIME, July 28, 1947). Recently the P.V.O. has shown signs that it was willing to cooperate with the government. Government officials show up regularly at the Rangoon Turf Club to instill public confidence, badly shaken by the sound of gunfire from the Insein front ten miles away. Last week racegoers...
...work with the so-called White Flag Communists. A group called Red Flag Communists worked separately from them. Closest to the government in outlook, but believing in cooperation with the Communists, was a group of veterans of the People's Anti-Japanese Army, organized by former Premier U Aung San, assassinated last year. Another important group is the Karens, who are mostly Christian, and oppose the government, which they say is heavily Marxist...
Some Burmese leaders think there is a chance that the army veterans might revert to the government side. Most optimistic is pretty, petite Mrs. Aung San. "After all, they are my husband's old army, and practically my sons," she says. "I am just like a mother to those boys. They'll come home soon and we'll welcome them back to the family...
Before evacuating Moulmeingyun, Bo Moe Kyi sought out Thakin Nu's aging father, U Aung Nyein. "So you are the father of that 'rosary man' [psalm-shouter]," she said. "Please don't be frightened, sir, we give Thakin Nu our due respect, but there is nothing strange in Communists seizing from the government. As you see, we have taken 300 guns and 60,000 rupees, and now we'll leave. That is all, dear great uncle...
Died. U Saw, 47, dapper, wily onetime Premier of Burma (1940-41); by execution (hanging); in Insein, Burma. A leader of the independence movement, he was interned by the British in 1942 for collaboration with the Japanese. Freed in 1946, he lost out to Premier Aung San in the postwar political roughhouse, retaliated last July with an attempted coup and Aung San's assassination...