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Biography
Nu was born to U San Tun and Daw Saw Khin of Wakema, Myaungmya
District, British Burma. He attended Myoma High School in Yangon, and
received a B.A. from Rangoon University in 1929. In 1935 he married Mya Yi
while studying for a Bachelor of Laws.
Political life
Struggle for independence
Nu's political life started as president of the Rangoon University Students
Union (RUSU) with Mr. M. A. Rashid as Vice-President and [U Thi Han] as the
General Secretary. Aung San was Editor and Publicity Officer. Nu and Aung
San were both expelled from the university after an article, Hell Hound
Turned Loose, appeared in the union magazine, which was obviously about
the Rector. Their expulsion sparked off the second university students' strike
in February 1936. Aung San and Nu became members of the nationalist
Dobama Asiayone (We Burmans Association) which had been formed in 1930
and henceforth gained the prefix Thakin ('Master'), proclaiming they were
the true masters of their own land. For a few years after independence in
1948 Nu retained the prefix 'Thakin', but around 1952 he announced that
since Burma was already independent the prefix of 'Thakin' was no longer
needed and henceforth he would be known as U ('Mr') Nu. In 1937 he cofounded with Thakin Than Tun the Nagani (Red Dragon) Book Club which for
the first time widely circulated Burmese-language translations of the Marxist
classics. He also became a leader and co-founder of the People's
Revolutionary Party (PRP), which later became the Socialist Party, and the
umbrella organisation the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL),
which advocated Burmese independence from both Japanese and British