A post from the archives
1941
room Japan
Colonel Suzuki Keiji of the Minami Kikan
Japan's ties to the Myanmar armed forces go back to the very founding of the Burma Independence Army in 1941. The pivotal figure on the Japanese side was Colonel Suzuki Keiji of the Minami Kikan (a sort of special operations directorate), who first recruited General Aung San and trained the now legendary Thirty Comrades.
Colonel Suzuki and his Minami Kikan fellow-officers came to associate closely with Burma's desire for independence and were at times distrusted by their own Japanese superiors....
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The aim of this website is to promote interest in Myanmar's amazing history.Our hope is to challenge the often two-dimensional and uncritical views of history taught in Myanmar by reexamining key periods in the country's past. We would like as well to reveal the rich multicultural nature of Myanmar's history and its deep and ongoing ties to global events and trends.Finally, this website will also delve into the history of neighbouring regions, such as Yunnan in China and the Northeast in India, in the hope of introducing these places to a Myanmar audience.We believe that meeting Myanmar's many challenges today will require fresh imaginative thinking. This is turn will only be possible with a clear and critical understanding of Myanmar and global history.