Gandhi Hall, Yangon Explained

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]}

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Notes and References

1. News: Gandhi Hall saved from trustees' condo plans . Aung. Noe Noe. 1 December 2013. Myanmar Times. 14 August 2016.
2. Book: Topich . William J. . Leitich . Keith A. . 2013 . The History of Myanmar . The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations . Santa Barbara . Greenwood . 105 . 978-0-313-35724-4.
3. News: An interview for notorious 90' elections with Gandhi Hall Declaration reader Khin Maung Swe and MC Sein Hla Oo. 27 May 2015. Eleven. 14 August 2016. 17 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160817221923/http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/local/interview-notorious-90%E2%80%99-elections-gandhi-hall-declaration-reader-khin-maung-swe-and-mc-sein. dead.