OBITUARIES : U Nu

From: The Independent - London | Date: February 20, 1995| Author: AYE AYE WIN | Copyright information

With the death of U Nu, Burma has lost one of its great leaders of the century. His political activities dated back to his student days of the 1930s, a time when nationalism was stirring below the surface, and continued up to the present after the democracy uprisings in 1988 brought him back on to the political scene. U Nu was a deeply religious man and one who put the interests of the nation before his own.

He was born in 1907 to U San Htun and his wife Daw Saw Khin, in the town of Wa...

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