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  • Aung San, the father of Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the movement for democracy against the present Burma's military junta, was a Burmese revolutionary fighting British capitalism and Japanese fascism. Born to a family descendent of a Burmese patriot beheaded by the British, as a child, Aung San's dream was to rebel against the British. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Aung San (1915–1947)]

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