Gandhi Hall, Yangon

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]

Gandhi Hall Yangon
Gandhi Hall Yangon Side View

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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