The Burma Independence Army is founded at Bangkok
On 28 December 1941 at Bangkok the Burma Independence Army (BIA) was formally established in a ceremony of blood oath. It grew out of the Minami Kikan, a Japanese organisation set up in February 1941 to support Burmese resistance to British rule and to close the Burma Road. Colonel Suzuki Keiji, who had entered Rangoon in 1940 posing as a journalist, had gathered the Thirty Comrades, among them Aung San, who left Burma in April 1941 for training on Hainan Island in leadership, espionage and guerrilla warfare. The founding force…
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