TheAnti-Fascist Organisation (AFO) was aresistance movement against theJapanese occupation of Burma and independence of Burma duringWorld War II. It was the forerunner of theAnti-Fascist People's Freedom League.
Anti-Fascist Organisation | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | AFO |
| Leader | Thakin Soe |
| Founded | August 1944 |
| Merger of | CPB BNA PRP |
| Succeeded by | AFPFL |
| Ideology | Anti-fascism Burmesenationalism Factions: Communism Socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
History
editThe AFO was formed at a meeting inPegu in August 1944 held by the leaders of theCommunist Party of Burma (CPB), theBurma National Army (BNA) led by GeneralAung San, and the People's Revolutionary Party (PRP), later renamed theBurma Socialist Party.[1][2]
Whilst in Insein prison in July 1941, CPB leadersThakin Than Tun andThakin Soe had co-authored theInsein Manifesto, which, against the prevailing opinion in the Burmese nationalist movement led by theDobama Asiayone, identified worldfascism as the main enemy in the coming war and called for temporary cooperation with the British in a broad allied coalition that included theSoviet Union. Soe had already gone underground to organise resistance against the Japanese occupation, and Than Tun as Minister of Land and Agriculture was able to pass on Japanese intelligence to Soe, while other Communist leaders Thakin Thein Pe and Thakin Tin Shwe made contact with the exiled colonial government inSimla,India. Aung San was War Minister in the puppet administration set up on 1 August 1943 which also included the Socialist leadersThakin Nu andThakin Mya.[1][2]
At a meeting held between 1 and 3 March 1945, the AFO was reorganised as a multi-party front named theAnti-Fascist People's Freedom League.[3]
References
edit- ^abOliver Hensengerth (2005).The Burmese Communist Party and the State-to-State Relations between China and Burma(PDF). Leeds East Asia Papers. pp. 10–12. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2008-05-28. Retrieved2007-04-29.
- ^abMartin Smith (1991).Burma - Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. London and New Jersey: Zed Books. pp. 60–61.
- ^Haruhiro Fukui (1985)Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, pp108–109
External links
edit- Heroes and VillainsThe Irrawaddy, March 2007
- The Bloodstrewn Path:Burma's Early Journey to IndependenceArchived 2008-04-16 at theWayback Machine BBC Burmese, 30 September 2005
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