During the first world war, in 1917, the US War Industries Board
called on women to stop buying metal-rich corsets. Some 28,000 tons of
metals were thus made available to the war effort.
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Burma (Aung San)
Aung San Suu Kyi is a much revered opposition leader in Myanmar
(Burma) (born 1945). She has bravely resisted - and still does - the
murderous military regime in her homeland and has won the 1991 Nobel
Peace Prize.
Her mother was ambassador to India in the 1960s. She is cherished by
all her countrymen.
Moreover, Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of an illustrious figure in
Burmese history, a national hero - Aung San, who was murdered in 1947.
Aung San may be a hero to the Burmese but he has collaborated with the
Japanese war-crime tainted military machine throughout the second
world war - though he conveniently switch allegiances to the winning
side five months before the Japanese capitulated.
Aung San raised a Burmese contingent - the "Burma Independence Army"
- to assist the Japanese in their invasion of Burma in 1942.
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