Item Code: 149/mm-2
Obverse description
U Saw, also known as Galon U Saw (1900 – 8 May 1948), was a leading Burmese politician and the Prime Minister of British Burma during the colonial era before the Second World War. He is best known for his role in the assassination of Burma's national hero Aung San and other independence leaders in July 1947, only months before Burma gained independence from Britain in January 1948.
Year
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1958
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Obverse
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Portrait
of General Aung San
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Reverse
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Burmese
Junks; mountains.
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Watermark
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Portrait of General Aung
San.
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Size
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108 x 66 mm
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Assassination of Aung San
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| Aung San |
Aung San (13 February 1915 – 19 July 1947) was a Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician. He was the
father of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
On 19 July 1947, a gang of armed
paramilitaries of former Prime Minister U Saw broke into the Secretariat
Building in downtown Rangoon
during a meeting of the Executive Council (the shadow government established by the British in
preparation for the transfer of power) and assassinated Aung San and
six of his cabinet ministers, including his older brother Ba Win, father of Sein Win, leader of the government-in-exile,
the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB). A cabinet secretary and a bodyguard were also killed. U Saw was subsequently tried and hanged.
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Aung San's Last
Journey
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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.
U Saw
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| U Saw |
He was executed by
hanging for his assassination.
Reverse description:
Mountains in Myanmar
List of mountains in Myanmar
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Name
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Height
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Name
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Height
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Name
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Height
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5,881 m
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2,890 m
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2,563 m
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5,870 m
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2,822 m
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2,555 m
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3,826 m
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2,769 m
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2,543 m
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3,677 m
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2,742 m
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2,519 m
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3,411 m
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2,703 m
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2,510 m
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3,388 m
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2,702 m
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2,495 m
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3,328 m
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2,692 m
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2,353 m
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3,221 m
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2,680 m
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2,244 m
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3,162 m
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2,678 m
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2,225 m
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3,088 m
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2,673 m
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2,150 m
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3,082 m
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2,641 m
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2,131 m
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3,069 m
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2,623 m
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2,128 m
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3,053 m
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2,566 m
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2,080 m
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2,072 m
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2,005 m
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1,973 m
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1,936 m
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1,874 m
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1,816 m
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1,767 m
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1,703 m
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1,518 m
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1,075 m
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1,052 m
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1,052 m
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343 m
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| View of Mount Popa. |
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Mandalay Hill.
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| Nat Ma Taung (Mount Victoria) summit. |
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The shrine at the top of Mt. Taung Kalat near
Mount Popa.
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