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Aung San Suu Kyi timeline
1938
23-year-old Rangoon student Aung San, later the father of Aung San Suu Kyi, becomes general secretary of a freedom party,
Dobama Asiayone
(Our Burma Union)
1941
Aung San and some revolutionary colleagues (the Thirty Comrades) receive military training in Japan, aiming to evict the British from Burma
1941 December 28
Burmese politician Aung San raises a Burma Independence Army in Thailand to support the imminent Japanese invasion of his country
1942 January
Aung San's Burma Independence Army enters Burma as part of the Japanese invasion
1942 May
Burma becomes the last in the series of important southeast Asian territories to fall into Japanese hands
1942 May
William Slim gets the remaining British forces back to India from Burma, in a fighting withdrawal that lasts two months
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