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Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
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U Ottama
Buddhist monk and leader of the Burmese independence movement
Sayadaw U Ottama was a Theravada Buddhist monk, author, and a leader of the Burmese independence movement during British colonial rule. The ethnic Rakhine (Arakanese) monk was imprisoned several times by the British colonial government for his anti-colonialist political…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hunger strike
Form of protest or political activism
A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change. Hunger strikers that do not take fluids are named dry hunger strikers.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
British rule in Burma
British colonial rule from 1824 to 1948
British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese Wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence. The region under British…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)