Than Tun: (Obituary) Renowned Burmese historian
Burma’s outspoken, respected and renowned historian Dr. Than Tun, suddenly died from heart attack and breathing problems at his beloved History Department of Mandalay University in central Burma, in the early hours of 30 November.
He was more than 82 years old when he died, having just celebrated the 90th birthday of his close friend Ludhu Daw Amar at Taunglaylone (Four Mountains) Monastery of Reverend U Pannya, situated on Taungthaman Lake near Mandalay on the previous day.
Colleagues, friends and pupils paid tribute to the man who stood firm against the oppressions, intimidations and draconian censorships of successive military rules of Burma by remaining faithful to the ethics of a true and unbiased historian and by not toeing the official line when it comes to the true history of Burma, to the day of his death.
A friend of his and the famous Burmese writer Ludhu Sein Win, said that Dr. Than Tun was the one and only true professional in Burma.
A student leader told DVB that at the birthday celebration of Daw Amar when he last spoke to Dr. Than Tun, the late professor urged him and the people of Burma to finish off the struggle for freedom and democracy.
Than Tun often criticised military rulers for attempting to rewrite the history of Burma according to the requirements of their propagandas, and his well-researched books on Burma, had often been banned by the authorities or sidelined by publishers for fear of punishments from the generals who don’t want the people to find out the true history of Burma.
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He was more than 82 years old when he died, having just celebrated the 90th birthday of his close friend Ludhu Daw Amar at Taunglaylone (Four Mountains) Monastery of Reverend U Pannya, situated on Taungthaman Lake near Mandalay on the previous day.
Colleagues, friends and pupils paid tribute to the man who stood firm against the oppressions, intimidations and draconian censorships of successive military rules of Burma by remaining faithful to the ethics of a true and unbiased historian and by not toeing the official line when it comes to the true history of Burma, to the day of his death.
A friend of his and the famous Burmese writer Ludhu Sein Win, said that Dr. Than Tun was the one and only true professional in Burma.
A student leader told DVB that at the birthday celebration of Daw Amar when he last spoke to Dr. Than Tun, the late professor urged him and the people of Burma to finish off the struggle for freedom and democracy.
Than Tun often criticised military rulers for attempting to rewrite the history of Burma according to the requirements of their propagandas, and his well-researched books on Burma, had often been banned by the authorities or sidelined by publishers for fear of punishments from the generals who don’t want the people to find out the true history of Burma.