After parking his car outside the hill-top villa in a leafy neighborhood just a few hundred meters from the Shwedagon Pagoda, Zaw Htet Aung tells his son, â??this is where General Aung San used to live.â? His wife nods in agreement.
The couple chaperoned their boy to this two-storied colonial-style wooden house, namely the Bogyoke (General) Aung San Museum, for their only childâ??s benefit.
â??He has seen Bogyoke in pictures,â? said eight-year-old Tet Htut Aungâ??s father. â??Thatâ??s why weâ??ve brought him here to have some more ideas about Aung San.â?
After being closed for five years for large-scale maintenance, the former home of Burmaâ??s national hero and his family has now reopened to the publicâ??providing a unique glimpse into his private life.
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