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Aung San
Aung San was a Burmese nationalist leader who founded the Burma Independence Army with Japanese help in 1941. He led the army of the Japanese-sponsored State of Burma but turned it against Japan in 1945. He negotiated independence with Britain and agreed the Panglong Conference with Shan, Kachin and Chin leaders in 1947, but was assassinated in July 1947, months before independence.
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