Martyrs' Day of Myanmar/Burma (19 July)

Martyrs' Day is a Myanmar national holiday observed on 19 July at approximately 10:37 a.m., to commemorate Gen. Aung San and seven other leaders of the pre-independence interim government—Thakin Mya, U Ba Cho, U Razak, U Ba Win, Mahn Ba Khaing, Sao San Tun and U Ohn Maung —all of whom were assassinated on that day in 1947. It is customary for high-ranking government officials to visit the Martyrs' Mausoleum in Yangon in the morning of that day to pay respects.

The assassinated were:

1.            General Aung San, Prime Minister

2.            U Ba Cho, Minister of Information

3.            Mahn Ba Khaing, Minister of Industry

4.            U Ba Win, Minister of Trade

5.            Thakin Mya, Minister of Home Affairs

6.            U Razak, Minister of Education and National Planning

7.            Sao San Tun, Minister of Hills Regions

8.            U Ohn Maung, Deputy Minister of Transport

9.            Ko Htwe, Bodyguard of Razak

Bogyoke (General) Aung San; 13 February 1915 – 19 July 1947) was a Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, founder of the modern Burmese army (Tatmadaw), and considered to be the Father of modern-day Burma.

He was responsible for bringing Burma's independence from British colonial rule in Burma, but was assassinated six months before independence. He is recognized as the leading architect of independence, and the founder of the Union of Burma. Affectionately known as "Bogyoke" (General), Aung San is still widely admired by the Burmese people, and his name is still invoked in Burmese politics to this day.

Poem for Martyr's Day (In English)

Aung San Zarni

Born on February 13 was he

Born in 1915, son of Lawyer U Hpa

Of Natmauk, in Magwe District

Mother's name was Daw Suu

The year 1947 died he

On July 19 everyone wept

He is the cause of our Independence

He is the father of this nation.

The blessings he had given us, the words he had uttered...

How can we ever take

those out of our minds...

Poem for Martyr's Day (In Myanmar)

ေအာင္ဆန္းဇာနည္

ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ ၁၃ မွာ

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေမြးေန႔ပါ၊

တေထာင္႔ကိုးရာ တဆယ္႔ငါး

ေရွ႕ေန ဦးဖာသား၊

ဇာတိ နတ္ေမာက္ မေကြးခရိုင္

သိၾကမ်ားခုတိုင္၊

ႀကံ့ႀကံ့ခိုင္တဲ့ ဇာနည္ဘြား

မိခင္ ေဒၚစုသား၊

တေထာင္႔ကိုးရာ ေလးဆယ္႔ခြန္

ေျပာင္းၾကြ တမလြန္၊

မ်က္ရည္ၿဖိဳင္လို႔ ဘ၀င္ညိႈး

ဇူလိုင္ တဆယ့္ကိုး။

ျပည္ေထာင္စုရဲ႕ ေက်းဇူးရွင္

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ တို႔ဖခင္၊

ေကာင္းေစခ်င္တဲ့ မွာစကား

ငါတို႔ မေမ့အား။

ျပည္ေထာင္စုေရး ႀကိဳးပမ္းေဆာင္

ျပည္ခ်စ္ တို႔ေခါင္းေဆာင္

ဆိုရွယ္လစ္ေဘာင္ လမ္းစဥ္မ်ား

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ ခ်မွတ္သြား

Source from Wikipedia

Martyrs' Day of Myanmar/Burma (19 July)