* 1915 – Aung San, Burmese general and politician ( d. 1947 )

* The Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi stated, " This poem had inspired my father, Aung San, and his contemporaries during the independent struggle, as it also seemed to have inspired freedom fighters in other places at other times.

* 1947 – The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.

Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.

By granting independence to Burma, the British government gave the new ruler, Aung San, control over areas that were not traditionally controlled by the Bamar.

On the 19th of July 1947, Aung San became Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Burma, a transitional government.

But in July 1947, political rivals assassinated Aung San and several cabinet members.

The Irish Government was still concerned by the continued detention of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

In this visit, the first by a Secretary of State since 1955, Clinton met with the President of Burma, Thein Sein, in the capital Naypyidaw, and later met with democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon.

“ By allowing deals with Burma ’ s state-owned oil company, the U. S. looks like it caved to industry pressure and undercut Aung San Suu Kyi and others in Burma who are promoting government accountability ,” HRW ’ s Business and Human Rights Director Arvind Ganesan said.

Recently, ASEAN did take a stronger tone with Burma, particularly regards to the detention of now-released Aung San Suu Kyi.

However, there were tensions over detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, with Thailand calling for her release.

Border disputes are now coming more prominent and Thailand as disturbed by the imprisonment of Burma ’ s dissident Aung San Suu Kyi.

India is generally friendly with Burma, but is concerned by the flow of tribal refugees and the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Among the Burmese to work at the UN when he was Secretary-General was the young Aung San Suu Kyi.

* 1988 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.

* General Aung San

** Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar poet, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

** In the Burmese general election, Burma's first multiparty election in 30 years, the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi wins in a landslide, but the State Law and Order Restoration Council nullifies the election results.

* September 6 – In Burma, the State Law and Order Restoration Council orders the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and five other political dissidents.

* July 10 – Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi is freed from house arrest.

* October 14 – Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese opposition politician, won the Nobel Peace prize.

* Peace – Aung San Suu Kyi

* July 20 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest.

* Aung San Suu Kyi led the opposition National League for Democracy which was victorious in 1990 general election.

The present members of this group are Desmond Tutu, Graça Machel, Kofi Annan, Ela Bhatt, Lakhdar Brahimi, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Mary Robinson, Muhammad Yunus, and Aung San Suu Kyi ( with an empty chair for her ).

* Aung San Suu Kyi's family ( Burma )

Than Shwe released U Nu from prison and relaxed some of the restrictions on Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest, finally releasing her in 1995, although she was forbidden to leave Rangoon.

Aung San's wife Daw Khin Kyi died on 27 December 1988. Daw Khin Kyi's Mausoleum was constructed by Engineer corps, close supervised by major Win Aung Tint, Capt Tin Aye & wo 1 Kan Nyunt of G E ( 954 ) Yangon, situated on former Godwin road.

On Monday, 30, 000 people led by 15, 000 monks marched from Shwedagon Pagoda and past the offices of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) party.

In a April 2012 interview, Khin Nyunt, formerly the country's prime minister, claimed that he personally intervened to save Aung San Suu Kyi's life during the massacre, by mobilizing his men to bring her to a safe location at a nearby army cantonment.

The 1995 presentation was made in absentia to Burmese pro-democracy campaigner and leader of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) party, Aung San Suu Kyi.

The first years of Burmese independence were marked by successive insurgencies by the Red Flag Communists led by Thakin Soe, the White Flag Communists led by Thakin Than Tun, the Yèbaw Hpyu ( White-band PVO ) led by Bo La Yaung, a member of the Thirty Comrades, army rebels calling themselves the Revolutionary Burma Army ( RBA ) led by Communist officers Bo Zeya, Bo Yan Aung and Bo Yè Htut — all three of them members of the Thirty Comrades, Arakanese Muslims or the Mujahid, and the Karen National Union ( KNU ).

In 1996, in response to a " Visit Myanmar " campaign by the military regime, the Burmese opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for a tourism boycott.

Mental culture in Burmese crisis politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy.

Aung San in Burma National Army uniform.

Aung San was appointed War Minister, and the army was again renamed, this time as the Burma National Army ( BNA ).

On 19 July 1947, a gang of armed paramilitaries of former Prime Minister U Saw broke into the Secretariat Building in downtown Rangoon during a meeting of the Executive Council ( the shadow government established by the British in preparation for the transfer of power ) and assassinated Aung San and six of his cabinet ministers, including his older brother Ba Win, father of Sein Win leader of the government-in-exile, the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma ( NCGUB ).

Their youngest surviving child, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader of the Burmese Opposition, the National League for Democracy ( NLD ), and was until 13 November 2010, held under house arrest by the military regime.

It was founded by the Communist Party of Burma ( CPB ) led by Thakin Soe, the Burma National Army ( BNA ) led by Aung San, and the People's Revolutionary Party ( PRP ) ( later evolved into the Socialist Party ) led by U Nu, at a secret meeting in Pegu in August 1944 as the Anti-Fascist Organisation ( AFO ) to resist the Japanese occupation.

The 1956 election results however came as a shock although the AFPFL was returned to office, as the opposition leftist coalition, known as the National United Front ( NUF ) and led by Aung Than, older brother of Aung San, won 37 % of the vote with an increased number of seats in parliament.

* Aung San Suu Kyi, pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Aung San became Minister of Defence in the new regime, and also Commander-in-Chief of the renamed Burma National Army, with the rank of Major General.

In 1999 with a Democrats of the Left delegation ( also with Walter Veltroni ) he went to Burma in support of the National League for Democracy and met the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi.

The AFPFL was a coalition of widely divergent political parties including primarily Communists, Socialists, and the Burma National Army ( BNA ) led by Gen. Aung San, and, as the subsequent civil war in Burma demonstrated, no single group or individual could claim to lead it effectively as a whole ; many to this day however believe that if Aung San had lived the course of modern Burmese history would have been very different, for he was the one leader that could unite the numerous and diverse ethnic minorities as well as the fractious and disparate political groups.

In 1944, Aung San, the Burmese nationalist who had founded the BIA with Japanese assistance and had been appointed Minister of Defence in Ba Maw's government and commander of the Burma National Army, contacted Burmese communist and socialist leaders, some of whom were already leading insurgencies against the Japanese.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi was put under house arrest, and her National League for Democracy suppressed in their non-violent quest for democracy and freedom in military-controlled Myanmar.

Aung San Suu Kyi returned from London to lead the National League for Democracy which was founded during the 1988 popular uprising, but was placed under house arrest in 1989 ; since she is a devout Buddhist and leader of the opposition, she is considered a socially engaged Buddhist.