Pe Khin

Education

Studied in Urdu language at Swe Hman village Primary School and passed the fourth standard examination.

Career

Even General Aung San was disappointed, given up and decided to take the flight back to Rangoon that evening. Pe Khin persuaded General Aung San to stay for one night and to allow him to negotiate with the Ethnic Minority leaders. Pe Khin successfully negotiated with those Ethnic leaders and U Aung Zan Wai, Bo Khin Maung Galay, U Pe Khin, Bo Hmu Aung, Sir Maung Gyi, Doctor Sein Mya Maung, Myoma U Than Kywe to get an agreement for this most important treaty in Burma, which was the foundation of the formation of Union of Burma which leads to its Independence from the British.

This day of February 12 is celebrated since as "Union Day".

Born in Swehman village, Pyawbwe Township of Mandalay Division to Associate of Arts Khan (U Bo Galay) and Daw Toke on 27 August 1912. He passed 7th standard from Pyawbwe Township"s Wesleyan School and Matriculation from the Kelly School, Mandalay.

Stayed together in Bago Hostel together with future General Aung San and got the Bachelor of Arts,Bachelor of Laws from the Rangoon University. He started work as the Labour Office at the Chauk Petroleum oil field in 1938.

lieutenant became the seed for the famous Panglong Conference Agreement.

He was the main lobbyist behind the letter by the leaders of Mandalay requesting General Aung San to appoint U Razak for the Cabinet post. Pe Khin was appointed as Burma’s first Ambassador to Pakistan in 1947. He was then sent as the Ambassador to Thailand from 1953 to 1956.

He was later transferred to Laos, Cambodia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Malaysia and Singapore in his 25 years of diplomatic service and retired in 1972.

Active in Burma Muslim Congress together with U Razak and Khin Maung Latt since 1945. Participated as the delegation in the drawing of the new constitution.

Achievements

• He was awarded with ‘Maha Tharaesithu’ in the First Honours list given out by the Burmese government after Independence. Country’s Honour First grade on 7 June 1980. Pe Khin died on 25-2-2004.

Membership

He became the Central Executive Member of AFPFL and was appointed as the AFPFL’s secretary for the Ethnic Minorities of Burma. He was elected as the Member of Parliament of FPFL representing the Phaw Bawl Township in the April 1947 constituent assembly elections. After U Saw, a conservative pre-war Prime Minister of Burma, engineered the assassination of Aung San and several members of his cabinet while meeting in the Secretariat on July 19, 1947 U Pe Khin became a minister the new cabinet formed by Thakin Nu.