Visual Points: hiangmai Shans remember the martyrs
Shan youth in Chiangmai organized a memorial service for Sao Sam Tun, who was assassinated together with Gen Aung San on 19 July 1947, at the Wat Kutao Temple on Sunday.
Readers may recognize some of them here.


Organizers welcoming guests from Burma Having a meal following offerings to the monks 

Sharing of merit to the late heroes
Some VIPs at the merit-sharing service

Gen Gunjade sharing his memoirs of past leaders Ajarn
Khanit Wanakamon, a retired Shan professor
from Chiangmai’s Teachers University
exhorting youth to preserve traditions 

Photo exhibition
Explaining to the monks who’s who in the photos


