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Place of Birth: Yangon, Yangon Region, Myanmar
About Tin Tut
- Tin Tut, CBE (Burmese: ???????, pronounced [t?`? t???]; also spelt Tin Htut; 1 February 1895 – 18 September 1948) was the first 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Burma, and the Minister of Finance in Aung San's pre-independence government.
- Educated at Dulwich and Queens' College, Cambridge, Tin Tut was the first Burmese to become an Indian Civil Service officer.
- He was Prime Minister Aung San's deputy in the government.
- However, he was not present in the cabinet meeting on 19 July 1947.
- On that day, assassination that claimed the lives of Aung San and six other cabinet ministers occurred .He was mortally wounded when a bomb exploded in his car on Sparks Street on 18 September 1948.
- He died shortly after in Rangoon General Hospital.
- A close adviser of Aung San, he was instrumental in negotiations for Burma's independence including Panglong and Nu-Attlee agreements.
- Historian Thant Myint-U called him "the brightest Burmese officer of his generation".
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