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Many Burmese believe that the British were somehow involved in the assassination plot; two British officers were also arrested at the time and one of them charged and convicted for supplying an agent of U Saw with arms and munitions. A large part of the stockpile, which was enough to equip a small
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on 8 May 1948. A number of perpetrators met the same fate, while minor players, who were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, also spent several years in prison.
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refused to pardon or commute the sentences of most of those who were sentenced to death, and U Saw was hanged inside Rangoon's
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Appeals to the High Court of Burma by U Saw and his accomplices were rejected on 8 March 1948. In a judgment written by
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to head an interim administration and when Burma became independent on 4 January 1948, Nu became the first
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army, was recovered from a lake next to U Saw's house in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.
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and seven other leaders of the pre-independence interim government, and one bodyguard —
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led the ceremony of the First Burmese Martyrs' Day on 20 July 1947 in Rangoon.
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The blessings he had given us, the words he had uttered  ...
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On 19 July 1947, at approximately 10:37 a.m.,
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Myanmar
19 July
Burmese
[ʔàzànìnḛ]
Burmese national holiday
Aung San
Thakin Mya
Ba Cho
Abdul Razak
Ba Win
Mahn Ba Khaing
Sao San Tun
Ohn Maung
Ko Htwe
Martyrs' Mausoleum
Yangon
Myoma U Than Kywe

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