Myanmar celebrates Martyrs' Day to honour fallen national heroes


A child with stickers on her face featuring Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi waits to enter the Martyrs' Mausoleum during the Martyrs' Day ceremony in Yangon on Sunday (July 19, 2020). Myanmar observed the 73rd anniversary of Martyrs' Day on July 19, marking the assassination of independence heroes including Aung San Suu Kyi's father, who helped end British colonial rule. - AFP

YANGON, July 19 (Xinhua): Myanmar commemorated the 73rd Martyrs' Day on Sunday amid the Covid-19 outbreak to honour fallen national heroes including General Aung San and eight others who sacrificed their lives in 1947 for regaining the country's independence.

General Aung San, founder of Myanmar's armed forces, along with eight others including his bodyguard and seven councillor members, were all assassinated at Yangon's Secretariat Building (then known as Prime Ministers' Office) on July 19, 1947, before Myanmar regained independence on Jan 4, 1948.

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