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Mahn Ba Khaing

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Mahn Ba Khaing
မန်းဘခိုင်
Minister of Industry and Labour of Burma
In office
September 1946 – 19 July 1947
Prime MinisterAung San
Preceded byNew Office
Personal details
Born(1903-10-26)26 October 1903
Hinthada, British Burma
Died19 July 1947(1947-07-19) (aged 43)
Yangon, British Burma
Resting placeMartyrs' Mausoleum, Myanmar
Political partyAFPFL
RelationsMahn Win Khaing Than (grandson)
ProfessionPolitician

Mahn Ba Khaing (Burmese: မန်းဘခိုင် [máɰ̃ ba̰ kʰàɪɰ̃]; 26 October 1903 – 19 July 1947) was a Karen[1] politician who served as the Minister of Industry and Labour in Burma's pre-independence government.[2] He was assassinated on 19 July 1947, alongside Prime Minister Aung San, the father of Aung San Suu Kyi, and was recognized as one of the nine Burmese national martyrs.[3]

Mahn Win Khaing Than, acting Vice President of Myanmar,[4][5] is one of his grandchildren.[6][7]

Early life and education

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Born in Yontalin Village, Hinthada Township, Ayeyarwady Region on 26 October 1903, Mahn Ba Khaing was the fifth son of Mahn Pe Kone, the village head, and Daw Pu.[8][9][10] He was educated at the American Baptist Missionary School in Hinthada before leaving the school in 1920.[11]

Political career and death

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Mahn Ba Khaing was elected as a parliamentarian for northern Pathein region in 1937.[8] He served as chairman of the Karen Youth Organisation. When the Aung San-led interim government was formed in 1946, Mahn Ba Khaing was appointed as the Minister of Industry and Labour.[2]

He and eight others (including Prime Minister Aung San) were assassinated on 19 July 1947 in Ministers' Building in Yangon (nowadays Secretariat Yangon).[12][13]

References

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  1. ^ Broadcasting, Burma (Union) Dept of Information and (1948). Burma's Fight for Freedom: Independence Commemoration. Superintendent, Government Print. and Stationery.
  2. ^ a b "[CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF EVENTS, JULY 7-20, 1947]". Chronology of International Events and Documents. 3 (14): 393–417. 1947. ISSN 0959-5376. JSTOR 40545062.
  3. ^ States, United States President of the United (1969). Assassination and Political Violence, Vol. 8: A Report to the National Commission on the Cause and Prevention of Violence.
  4. ^ "CRPH appointed Mahn Win Khaing Than as acting vice-president". Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. 9 March 2021.
  5. ^ "မန်းဝင်းခိုင်သန်း ဒုတိယသမ္မတအဖြစ် CRPH ခန့်အပ်". VOA (in Burmese).
  6. ^ "အာဇာနည်မန်းဘခိုင်ရဲ့မြေး အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌအဖြစ် NLD လျာထား". VOA (in Burmese).
  7. ^ "အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ မန်းဝင်းခိုင်သန်းက အဘိုးဖြစ်သူ အာဇာနည်ခေါင်းဆောင်ကြီး မန်းဘခိုင်၏ ကရင်အမျိုးသားဝတ်စုံကို အမျိုးသားပြတိုက်သို့ လှူဒါန်း". The Myanmar Times. 14 October 2018.
  8. ^ a b "Mahn Ba Khaing, Ready To Lay Down His Life For Independence - Global New Light Of Myanmar".
  9. ^ "မမေ့အပ်သော အာဇာနည် (၉)ဦး၏ အချက်အလက်များ". WE.
  10. ^ "မန်းဘခိုင်ရဲ့ပါးနှစ်ဖက်ကို ဘယ်သူတွေနမ်းမှာလဲ". 7Day News - ၇ ရက်နေ့စဉ် သတင်း.
  11. ^ Engelbert, Thomas (2004). Ethnic Minorities and Politics in Southeast Asia. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-38990-4.
  12. ^ Ngwei tayi metgạzīn (in Burmese). 1968.
  13. ^ Hau, Vum Ko (1963). Profile of a Burma Frontier Man, an Autobiographical Memoirs [sic] Including Resistance Movements, Formation of the Union and the Independence of Burma, Together with Some Chapters on Oriental Books, Paintings, Coins, Porcelain and Objects D'art. Indonesia.