Dobama Asiayone
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Dobama Asiayone ("We Burmans Association"), led by Ba Sein, was a pro-independence and pro-Japanese Burmese organisation established in 1930 in Rangoon, after Indian dock workers and their families were murdered by Burman dock workers who believed that the Indians had taken jobs that rightfully belonged to them.[1][2][3] The organisation was nationalist in nature, and supported Burman supremacy. Its members used thakin, literally "master" as their titles. The slogan of the organisation was "Burma is our country; Burmese literature is our literature; Burmese language is our language. Love our country, raise the standards of our literature, respect our language."[4] Dobama Asiayone was keen assimilating ethnic minorities into Burman culture, and most of its activities stemmed from Rangoon University.[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ (2001) in Paul H. Kratoska: South East Asia: Colonial History. Routledge. ISBN 0-4152-1539-0.
- ^ (1999). "Nationalism as Political Paranoia in Burma: an essay on the historical practice of power". . Routledge Retrieved on 2006-12-11.
- ^ A first hand account appears in Trials in Burma (1937) by Maurice Collis
- ^ a b Tarling, Nicholas (1999). The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Cambridge UP. ISBN 0-5216-6369-5.
