Mahn Ba Khaing

In this Burmese name, Mahn is an honorific, not a given name.

In this Burmese name, the given name is Ba Khaing. There is no family name.

Mahn Ba Khaing
မန်းဘခိုင်
Minister of Industry and Labour of Burma
In office September 1946 – 19 July 1947
Prime Minister	Aung San
Preceded by	New Office
Personal details
Born	(1903-10-26)26 October 1903 Hinthada, British Burma
Died	19 July 1947(1947-07-19) (aged 43) Yangon, British Burma
Resting place	Martyrs' Mausoleum, Myanmar
Political party	AFPFL
Relations	Mahn Win Khaing Than (grandson)
Profession	Politician

Mahn Ba Khaing (Burmese: မန်းဘခိုင် [máɰ̃ ba̰ kʰàɪɰ̃]; 26 October 1903 – 19 July 1947) was a Karen[1] politician who served as the Minister of Industry and Labour in Burma's pre-independence government.[2] He was assassinated on 19 July 1947, alongside Prime Minister Aung San, the father of Aung San Suu Kyi, and was recognized as one of the nine Burmese national martyrs.[3]

Mahn Win Khaing Than, acting Vice President of Myanmar,[4][5] is one of his grandchildren.[6][7]

Early life and education

Born in Yontalin Village, Hinthada Township, Ayeyarwady Region on 26 October 1903, Mahn Ba Khaing was the fifth son of Mahn Pe Kone, the village head, and Daw Pu.[8][9][10] He was educated at the American Baptist Missionary School in Hinthada before leaving the school in 1920.[11]

Political career and death

Mahn Ba Khaing was elected as a parliamentarian for northern Pathein region in 1937.[8] He served as chairman of the Karen Youth Organisation. When the Aung San-led interim government was formed in 1946, Mahn Ba Khaing was appointed as the Minister of Industry and Labour.[2]

He and eight others (including Prime Minister Aung San) were assassinated on 19 July 1947 in Ministers' Building in Yangon (nowadays Secretariat Yangon).[12][13]

References

1. Broadcasting, Burma (Union) Dept of Information and (1948). Burma's Fight for Freedom: Independence Commemoration. Superintendent, Government Print. and Stationery.
2. "[CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF EVENTS, JULY 7-20, 1947]". Chronology of International Events and Documents. 3 (14): 393–417. 1947. ISSN 0959-5376. JSTOR 40545062.
3. States, United States President of the United (1969). Assassination and Political Violence, Vol. 8: A Report to the National Commission on the Cause and Prevention of Violence.
4. "CRPH appointed Mahn Win Khaing Than as acting vice-president". Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. 9 March 2021.
5. "မန်းဝင်းခိုင်သန်း ဒုတိယသမ္မတအဖြစ် CRPH ခန့်အပ်". VOA (in Burmese).
6. "အာဇာနည်မန်းဘခိုင်ရဲ့မြေး အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌအဖြစ် NLD လျာထား". VOA (in Burmese).
7. "အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ မန်းဝင်းခိုင်သန်းက အဘိုးဖြစ်သူ အာဇာနည်ခေါင်းဆောင်ကြီး မန်းဘခိုင်၏ ကရင်အမျိုးသားဝတ်စုံကို အမျိုးသားပြတိုက်သို့ လှူဒါန်း". The Myanmar Times. 14 October 2018.
8. "Mahn Ba Khaing, Ready To Lay Down His Life For Independence - Global New Light Of Myanmar".
9. "မမေ့အပ်သော အာဇာနည် (၉)ဦး၏ အချက်အလက်များ". WE.
10. "မန်းဘခိုင်ရဲ့ပါးနှစ်ဖက်ကို ဘယ်သူတွေနမ်းမှာလဲ". 7Day News - ၇ ရက်နေ့စဉ် သတင်း.
11. Engelbert, Thomas (2004). Ethnic Minorities and Politics in Southeast Asia. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-38990-4.
12. Ngwei tayi metgạzīn (in Burmese). 1968.
13. Hau, Vum Ko (1963). Profile of a Burma Frontier Man, an Autobiographical Memoirs [sic] Including Resistance Movements, Formation of the Union and the Independence of Burma, Together with Some Chapters on Oriental Books, Paintings, Coins, Porcelain and Objects D'art. Indonesia.