CNI News

20 July 2022

U Cho Aung Than, a nephew of late martyrs Gen. Aung San and U Ba Win, refused to attend the Martyrs’ Day ceremony because he did not recognize the SAC, he told the CNI.

U Cho Aung Than is a son of U Aung Than, an elder brother of Gen. Aung San.

Families of Gen. Aung San and U Ba Win did not attend the 75th Anniversary Martyrs’ Day ceremony organized on 19th July, 2022.

U Cho Aung Than told the CNI, “As I said yesterday, we do not recognize the government. In previous years, a son of U Ba Win and I, as the eldest nephew of Gen. Aung San, attended the ceremonies.”

The organizing committee for the event attended the ceremony and laid wreaths on behalf of the absent families.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of Gen. Aung San, has been detained by the Tatmadaw after she tried to form a new government without settling voters’ list disputes in the 2020 general election on 1st February 2021 and a state of emergency was declared.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attends the 73rd Anniversary of the Martyrs’ Day Ceremony. 

The Tatmadaw formed the SAC to run the country and promised to hand over power to the winning party in the 2023 elections.

U Cho Aung Than said that the SAC was not a legitimate government and no one had voted for them.

“I do not recognize the government. Actually, it is not a legitimate government. I have never voted for them. Last year, authorities came to my house to check whether there were guests at my house. When they saw the flag of the National League of Democracy, they seized it. I will always remember the incident, especially on a day like this,” he told the CNI.

Vice Chairman of the SAC Vice Senior General Soe Win attended the ceremony and laid a wreath at the mausoleum.

Gen. Aung San and colleagues were assassinated at a meeting in the Secretariat in Yangon on 19^th July, 1947.

The day was designated as the Martyrs’ Day and it has been 75 years since the Martyrs’ Day ceremonies were held every year.