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On this page it says a rival assasininated him. On another page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Win it says it was the British. Who was it???

I'm pretty sure this is the more correct version. Ambi 23:20, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

bonfire: U Saw was found guilty of assasination. But the truth was mystry. According to the book, Aung San(I cant recall the exact title), U Saw was shot by a paramilitary who was donning uniform under General Aung San's command. He was wounded serverly and hospitalized for several months. Since then, U Saw targeted General Aung San. According to the author of the book, the paramilitary who shot U Saw was not affiliated with General Aung San's forces. The shooter also did not intend to kill U Saw; they (the shooter and people behind it) let U Saw harte General Aung San. Author concluded that Ne Win was the most responsible person behind the whole thing. I know that it is impossible to accuse someone without concrete evidence. I, myself, was not born during that time. That will be great if someone who know far more better than me could post here, but it is almost impossible because people who involved in the investigation are mostly dead.

• Your account is correct in part. What is known for sure is that there was an attempt to kill U Saw and that he blamed Aung San. The Shooter of U Saw has never been identified. An initial British report of the assassination claimed that those who carried it out were wearing the uniforms of the 4th Burma Rifles (Ne Win's Battalion). But after that first report, mysteriously nothing is ever said about that accusation again. That is all that can be known for sure. Many people may have wanted Aung San dead including Ne Win, the British and other political rivals. Its also possible that a group within the British authorities rather than the official government was responsible. Unless there is unrealeased material in the British Records, its unlikely that the truth will ever be known. The only thing that is known for sure is that after 1947, anyone who became a serious rival to Ne Win either ended up dead, driven from office, became a rebel or was driven into exile. The only exception (until 1962) being U Nu

According to a cable from Rance (Governor of Burma) to Pethwick Lawrence (the S of S for Burma in London) on the evening of the day the attack occurred, U Saw was shot at by men wearing the uniform of the PVO, Aung San's people (Pyithu Yebaw Tathpwe). I've revised the article on U Saw to summarise the account from Kin Oung's book, which remains the best - Kin Oung's investigation is thorough, and his standard of proof for any incident is two independent accounts. PiCo 12:33, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I have heard that U Myat Hlaing, who is the editor of Shumawa Magazine and, Yangon U Ba Swe tried yo hurt U Saw, but unluckily, U Saw lately know this when he was in the prison waiting a hang. That is written in the diary of U Saw, which was handed to his daughter, Daw Babysaw. For Daw Babysaw gave it to Daw Aung San Su Kyi, for washing her father's guilty.

I got confirmation from a relative, who was a young lieutenant in the Burma Army and assigned for security in the city at the time of Aung San's assassination, that it was Yangon Ba Swe of the Socialist Party (nothing to do with Aung San) who shot U Saw and that it wasn't a warning but an assassination attempt on U Saw. By all accounts, whatever else he was, U Saw was a brave man who seemed to have followed the old Burmese motto That yè yin, thei yè ya me (If you dare kill someone, you must not flinch when killed); he refused to have a hood over his face when he was hanged for his crime according to an eyewitness, a prison warden I knew who attended the execution. My relative's unit was, not surprisingly, stoned by the public when they went on patrol in town after the news of Aung San's death broke. Wagaung 22:41, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

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when you look at the bigger picture, you can clearly see that the Brit wanted to take care of AungSan. The Brit had a beef with him. I mean, first of all, he was one of the founding father of independent movement and he made a bold move by bring Jap into Burma. Yo...British hates that kind of thing. plus, the dude was only 32 when he die....You know what i saying here... AungSan was a smart ass and still young ....had potential..and he wrote several paper about how the west was dominating the world and of color people ......you know ....matter of fact, AungSan hates WhitePeople....well, British Killed him.. U Saw was a puppet of UK. he was in British Jail during ww2. he cut a deal ....because 2 weeks before Aungsan death, some burmese army officers reported that some guns from arm depot were missing....( at that time, Brits and BUmrese armys were joint guarding most of the main posts in Yangon. but English officers were in charge) and those guns numbers and U Saw group' guns .....there are crystal clear proof. u do the math. Whitemen kill another color brother...just because he knew what the European were doing and he had an ability to fight back politically, diplomatically and in civilize ways ... YES>>>> BRITS KILL Gen. Aung San. not U Saw. ask me more about Burma, i know about that country more that burmese.