People / group

Thirty Comrades

1941 · 20th century

The Thirty Comrades were young Burmese nationalists, led by Aung San, who received secret military training from the Japanese on Hainan in 1941. In December 1941 they founded the Burma Independence Army in Bangkok and entered Burma with the Japanese invasion of 1942. Several became leading figures of independent Burma, among them Ne Win, who seized power in 1962.

Thirty Comrades
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