Gandhi Hall Yangon
Gandhi Hall Yangon Side View

Gandhi Hall, also known as Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Trust, is a building in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, on the Merchant Street corner of Bo Aung Kyaw Road. It was first used as the office of The Rangoon Times, one of the English-language newspapers in British Burma. Later, in 1951, it was bought by Prime Minister U Nu and Indian ambassador M. A. Rauf for the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Trust.[1] The building is also part of the political history of Myanmar, as it was used for a gathering of elected representatives of the 1990 Myanmar election, who issued the Gandhi Hall Declaration in July 1990.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Aung, Noe Noe (1 December 2013). "Gandhi Hall saved from trustees' condo plans". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Topich, William J.; Leitich, Keith A. (2013). The History of Myanmar. The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations. Santa Barbara: Greenwood. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-313-35724-4.
  3. ↑ "An interview for notorious 90' elections with Gandhi Hall Declaration reader Khin Maung Swe and MC Sein Hla Oo". Eleven. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2016.

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