It's kinda hard to negotiate with the regime while you are locked up in one of their prisons,ken svay wrote:She won the election way back when but lacked the political nous to negotiate with the generals, she is not a politician and it shows.
While I don't support the decision by Bogyoke Aung San to throw his hat in with the Japs, I don't believe he was being particularly naive. On the contrary, he received full military training by the Japanese on Hainan Island, China, which he later turned on them. Aung San was an anti-colonialist, the British were the colonial power he was intent on removing, joining the Japanese was a tool he used to achieve that. When the Japanese revealed themselves to be colonialists he fought against them.ken svay wrote:Her father showed his naivety by being pro Japanese until he realised that they were far worse than the British.
Nope, it was a plot hatched by the former Prime Minister U Saw under the tutelage of, and with weapons supplied by, the British. This is from wikipedia... "Many mysteries still surround the assassination. There were rumours of a conspiracy involving the British — a variation on this theory was given new life in an influential, but sensationalist, documentary broadcast by the BBC on the 50th anniversary of the assassination in 1997. What did emerge in the course of the investigations at the time of the trial, however, was that several low-ranking British officers had sold guns to a number of Burmese politicians, including U Saw. Shortly after U Saw's conviction, Captain David Vivian, a British Army officer, was sentenced to five years imprisonment for supplying U Saw with weapons. Captain Vivian escaped from prison during the Karen uprising in Insein in early 1949. Little information about his motives was revealed during his trial or after the trial."ken svay wrote:He must have stuffed up with the generals as well, didn't they blow him up?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San
And here's the video in question...