Aung San, the founding father of Burma, born in 1915 and assassinated in 1947, did write a legend in his short 32-year career, but he also left a lot of controversy.
Early Burma was colonized by the British, Aung San was determined to resist, wanted by the British puppet government in Burma, in order to avoid disasters and players, Aung San had taken a boat to Xiamen, hoping to get assistance in China, but because of his unfamiliar life, he did not find the person he was looking for, but the Japanese agents keenly noticed him, and thought that this person could be expected in the future, can help them against the British, so decided to spend a lot of money to help Aung San. Aung San was also persuaded by the Japanese, who thought that he could dare to go to Britain with the help of the Japanese, so the two sides began to cooperate.
Aung San then completed his armament and training with the help of the Japanese, and in March 1942, with his assistance, the Japanese conquered Rangoon. Since then, although the two sides have different ideas, they have the same goal and cooperation continues. That year, with the help of Aung San, who was familiar with the burmese terrain, the Japanese defeated the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and because of its cruel treatment of prisoners, 1,500 expeditionary officers were humiliated and committed mass suicide on May 21 of that year.
Aung San not only assisted the Japanese army in defeating the British and expeditionary forces, he also targeted the anti-Japanese forces of the Burmese ethnic minorities, and it is said that he also personally executed the leaders of the Burmese ethnic minorities who were strongly anti-Japanese, mostly from the Karen and Kachin, which intensified the ethnic contradictions in Burma and laid the cause and effect for the chaos that followed for many years to come. Since then, Aung San served as defense minister in the puppet government, and also personally went to Japan, where he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun of the Third Class by Emperor Hirohito of Japan.
Of course, I am not saying how loyal Aung San is to the Japanese, in Aung San's view, the Japanese are just a pawn to help Burma achieve independence, and although the Japanese have used him, he is not using the Japanese? When the Japanese lost their usefulness, Aung San would decisively abandon him.
In 1944, the situation facing Japan in World War II was already very bad, Aung San decided to defect, they secretly contacted the British, the British were willing to support them, so at the end of March 45, the defecting Aung San raided the Japanese army. From a purely political point of view, this move is really powerful, playing the british and Japanese powers in a roundabout way, and sparing the consequences of Myanmar becoming a defeated country in World War II. For the Burmese, Aung San was the father of the nation, but for the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Burmese anti-Japanese people, I am afraid that this is not the case.