O Bogyoke ...!

(Dr Maung Maung Nyo)

My heart speeds up when I heard the word Bogyoke

Bogyoke means Aung San and Aung San means Bogyoke

No other person can claim this word from our hearts

It was ingrained indelibly fairly fast!

(Bogyoke Aung San & British PM Clement Atlee, with

Thakhin Mya on the left admiring)

So was it when I was a youngster

So it stays firmer when I grow further

So be it when I grow old and infirm

Or let me die untimely young!

(General Aung San Weds Daw Khin Kyi During the

Japanese Occupation)

(Bogyoke Aung San in Myitkyina with Kachin Girls)

Bogyoke led the students in their strikes

He led the people in their fights

Against the Japanese Fascists and British for independence

People had great trust in him for his selfless deliverance!

(Bogyoke Aung San at a Mass Meeting)

But he was assassinated mercilessly by murderers

The henchmen part of the plot to kill him so whatever

Sinister sick men scheming silently behind so copious

Bren guns Sten guns and British complicity so obvious.

(Bogyoke Aung San with His Family)

Burma’s independence has been won by his efforts

O Bogyoke you have done your duty well wrought!

(Bogyoke Statue at Bogyoke Gardens, Kandawgyi,

Yangon)

(Portrait of Bogyoke Aung San with Daughter

Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Su Kyi)

Dr Maung Maung Nyo

10 July 2009 (original)