New foundation named after former PM U Nu and wife Daw Mya Yi

The daughter of Myanmar’s first democratically elected prime minister, U Nu, launched a foundation today in Yangon named after her father and mother, Daw Mya Yi.
 
Than Than Nu, who is also a senior official in Myanmar’s Democratic Party, said the focus would be education and health, specifically artificial limb support for the disabled.
 
Members of her party, friends and diplomats from Israel and India attended the launch at the Central Hotel on Bogyoke Road, where several donations to the foundation were made on the spot. U Nu established close ties with Israel, and Than Than lived in India during a long stretch of the military dictatorship that overthrew her father in March of 1962.
 
From 1948 to 1962, U Nu served three separate terms as prime minister. He was jailed in the mid-1960s and led a failed rebellion from Thailand in the 1970s.
 
In 1988, having been allowed to return to the country several years earlier, he made one last attempt to reenter politics. But he was quickly put under house arrest.
 
He died at home in February, 1995. He and his wife are buried side by side in a cemetery on the outskirts on Yangon.
 
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