Yangon - Burma's military put road blocks around the National League for Democracy (NLD) party headquarters yesterday to vet attendance at a ceremony to mark the 1947 assassination the father of party leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi. Security personnel allowed some 400 people with invitations to attend the ceremony in the capital marking the 52nd anniversary of the death of Aung San, Burma's national hero and founding father. No incidents were reported.
Aung San was assassinated on July 19th, 1947, six months before independence from Britain.
