Mahn Ba Khaing
{{Short description|Burmese politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Burmese name|Mahn}}
{{family name hatnote|lang=Burmese|Ba Khaing}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
| name = Mahn Ba Khaing
| native_name = {{lang|my|မန်းဘခိုင်}}
| image = Mahn Ba Khaing (cropped).jpg
| office = Minister of Industry and Labour of Burma
| primeminister = Aung San
| term_start = September 1946
| term_end = 19 July 1947
| predecessor = New Office
| successor =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1903|10|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hinthada, British Burma
| death_date = {{death date and age|1947|7|19|1903|10|26|df=yes}}
| death_place = Yangon, British Burma
| resting_place = Martyrs' Mausoleum, Myanmar
| party = AFPFL
| relations = Mahn Win Khaing Than (grandson)
| spouse =
| alma_mater =
| profession = Politician
}}
Mahn Ba Khaing ({{langx|my|မန်းဘခိုင်}} {{IPA|my|máɰ̃ ba̰ kʰàɪɰ̃|}}; 26 October 1903 – 19 July 1947) was a Karen{{cite book |last1=Broadcasting |first1=Burma (Union) Dept of Information and |title=Burma's Fight for Freedom: Independence Commemoration |year=1948 |publisher=Superintendent, Government Print. and Stationery |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFY1AQAAIAAJ&q=mahn+ba+khaing |language=en}} politician who served as the Minister of Industry and Labour in Burma's pre-independence government.{{cite journal |journal=Chronology of International Events and Documents |date=1947 |volume=3 |issue=14 |pages=393–417 |jstor=40545062 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40545062 |issn=0959-5376|title=[CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF EVENTS, JULY 7-20, 1947] }} He was assassinated on 19 July 1947, alongside Prime Minister Aung San, the father of Aung San Suu Kyi, and was recognized as one of the nine Burmese national martyrs.{{cite book |last1=States |first1=United States President of the United |title=Assassination and Political Violence, Vol. 8: A Report to the National Commission on the Cause and Prevention of Violence |year=1969 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OPsxuAy3TAC&q=mahn+ba+khaing&pg=PA259 |language=en}}
Mahn Win Khaing Than, acting Vice President of Myanmar,{{cite web |last=|first=|date=9 March 2021|title= CRPH appointed Mahn Win Khaing Than as acting vice-president |url=https://twitter.com/CrphMyanmar/status/1369259857207914496|website=Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw|language=en}}{{cite news |title=မန်းဝင်းခိုင်သန်း ဒုတိယသမ္မတအဖြစ် CRPH ခန့်အပ် |url=https://burmese.voanews.com/a/crph-vice-president-mahn-khine-than/5807372.html |work=VOA |language=my}} is one of his grandchildren.{{cite news |title=အာဇာနည်မန်းဘခိုင်ရဲ့မြေး အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌအဖြစ် NLD လျာထား |url=https://burmese.voanews.com/a/iv-about-mann-win-khine-than/3155547.html |work=VOA |language=my}}{{cite news |title=အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ မန်းဝင်းခိုင်သန်းက အဘိုးဖြစ်သူ အာဇာနည်ခေါင်းဆောင်ကြီး မန်းဘခိုင်၏ ကရင်အမျိုးသားဝတ်စုံကို အမျိုးသားပြတိုက်သို့ လှူဒါန်း |url=https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/116491.html |work=The Myanmar Times |date=14 October 2018}}
Early life and education
Born in Yontalin Village, Hinthada Township, Ayeyarwady Region on 26 October 1903, Mahn Ba Khaing was the fifth son of Mahn Pe Kone, the village head, and Daw Pu.{{cite news |title=Mahn Ba Khaing, Ready To Lay Down His Life For Independence - Global New Light Of Myanmar |url=https://www.gnlm.com.mm/mahn-ba-khaing-ready-to-lay-down-his-life-for-independence/}}{{cite news |title=မမေ့အပ်သော အာဇာနည် (၉)ဦး၏ အချက်အလက်များ |url=http://we.com.mm/detail/5318 |work=WE |language=en}}{{cite news |title=မန်းဘခိုင်ရဲ့ပါးနှစ်ဖက်ကို ဘယ်သူတွေနမ်းမှာလဲ |url=https://7day.news/%E1%80%99%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%98%E1%80%81%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B2%E1%80%B7%E1%80%95%E1%80%AB%E1%80%B8%E1%80%94%E1%80%BE%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA%E1%80%96%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%80%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF-%E1%80%98%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9E%E1%80%B0%E1%80%90%E1%80%BD%E1%80%B1%E1%80%94%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%99%E1%80%BE%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9C%E1%80%B2-----48131 |work=7Day News - ၇ ရက်နေ့စဉ် သတင်း |language=en}} He was educated at the American Baptist Missionary School in Hinthada before leaving the school in 1920.{{cite book |last1=Engelbert |first1=Thomas |title=Ethnic Minorities and Politics in Southeast Asia |year=2004 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-3-631-38990-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6bq6AAAAIAAJ |language=en}}
Political career and death
Mahn Ba Khaing was elected as a parliamentarian for northern Pathein region in 1937. He served as chairman of the Karen Youth Organisation. When the Aung San-led interim government was formed in 1946, Mahn Ba Khaing was appointed as the Minister of Industry and Labour.
He and eight others (including Prime Minister Aung San) were assassinated on 19 July 1947 in Ministers' Building in Yangon (nowadays Secretariat Yangon).{{cite book |title=Ngwei tayi metgạzīn |year = 1968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJAwYhyfW2kC&q=%E1%80%99%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%98%E1%80%81%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA |language=my}}{{cite book |last1=Hau |first1=Vum Ko |title=Profile of a Burma Frontier Man, an Autobiographical Memoirs [sic] Including Resistance Movements, Formation of the Union and the Independence of Burma, Together with Some Chapters on Oriental Books, Paintings, Coins, Porcelain and Objects D'art |year=1963 |publisher=Indonesia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HNMCAAAAMAAJ&q=mahn+ba+khaing |language=en}}
References
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Category:People from Ayeyarwady Region