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{{Short description|Burmese communist leader (1917–1968)}}
'''Amar Nag'''<ref name="Tucker20012">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WX-8MeW9ZasC&pg=PA85|title=Burma: Curse of Independence|author=Shelby Tucker|date=20 September 2001|publisher=Pluto Press|isbn=978-0-7453-1541-6|page=85}}</ref> alias '''''Yebaw'' Tun Maung''' or '''U Hla''' (1917&ndash;1968), was one of the founding leaders of the communist movement in [[Burma]].<ref name="F">{{cite book|author=Klaus Fleischmann|title=Die Kommunistische Partei Birmas: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tYkiAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Institut für Asienkunde|isbn=978-3-88910-056-6|page=416}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2001"/><ref name="b">{{cite book|title=Marxist Miscellany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=56s4AQAAIAAJ|year=1971|publisher=People's Publishing House|pages=144, 152}}</ref><ref name="c">{{cite book|author=British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service|title=Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tFfRAAAAMAAJ|date=November 1968|publisher=Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Part I|first=Subodh C. Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=26}}</ref> Dr. Nag was active in the struggle for Burmese independence.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Current Digest of the Soviet Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CqWyAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies|page=20}}</ref> He was an important leader of the [[Communist Party of Burma]], but was killed in an ambush in 1968.
== Revolutionary activities ==
Nag was of [[Bengali people|Bengali]] origin.<ref name="l"/> He became interested in communism after meeting with [[H. N. Goshal|Harinarayan Ghosal]], the great personality of the communist movement. He was involved the Bengali revolutionary groups active in Burma.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4OArAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Institute of Historical Studies|page=45}}</ref> On August 15, 1939 Nag took part in the founding meeting of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB).<ref name="Tucker2001">{{cite book|author=Shelby Tucker|title=Burma: Curse of Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WX-8MeW9ZasC&pg=PA85|date=20 September 2001|publisher=Pluto Press|isbn=978-0-7453-1541-6|page=85}}</ref>
During the [[Second World War]] he went to India to study. He obtained a [[M.B.B.S.]] degree there.<ref name="l"/> During his stay in India he was active in the [[Communist Party of India]] and led the field work of the Bengal Medical Relief Camp and Coordination Committee. He worked closely with Dr. Bijoy Kumar Bose (from the Congress Medical Mission to China), organizing relief efforts for the people of [[Bengal]] suffering from plague and famine with instruction of Dr. [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]. He was also active in organizing the [[Calcutta Tramways Workers' and Employees' Union|Calcutta Tramways Workers' Union]] in [[Park Circus]] section.<ref name="b"/><ref name=":0" />
In 1947 he returned to Burma and began to practice at the [[Rangoon General Hospital]].<ref name="l">{{cite book|author=Bertil Lintner|title=Burma in revolt: opium and insurgency since 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tIBuAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Silkworm Press|isbn=978-974-7100-78-5|page=512}}</ref> However, politics would soon put an end to his career. Dr. Nag went underground in March 1948. He set forth to travel to [[Pyinmana]], where the party headquarters was located, reaching the site in May 1948.<ref name="l"/>
Dr. Nag served as a member of the [[Central Committee]] of the party.<ref name="a"/> As a medical practitioner in the communist movement, Dr. Nag trained the first batch of medical brigades of the party. He was a key figure in the party in the 1950s. Dr. Nag was a [[Political Commissar]] for the party in the North-West Military Region, operating in [[Sagaing]] and [[Magway Division|Magwe]].<ref name="l"/> He served as the principal of the Central Medical School of the Communist Party of Burma.<ref name="d">{{cite book|title=Himmat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ybsxAQAAIAAJ|year=1968|publisher=R.M. Lala|page=93}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=সেই সব শহীদেরা/এক বিস্মৃত বিপ্লবী - উইকিসংকলন একটি মুক্ত পাঠাগার |url=https://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AC_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE/%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%A4_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%80 |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=bn.wikisource.org |language=bn}}</ref>
== Death ==
On November 9, 1968 the 77th Division of the [[Myanmar Army|Burma Army]] attacked the CPB Medical School in the [[Pegu Yoma]] mountain range.<ref name="a">{{cite book|title=Forward|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uwzjAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Department of Information and Broadcasting|page=5}}</ref> Several students of the school were killed in the attack. Dr. Nag and a small group of followers managed to escape, but was killed by Army forces on November 11, 1968.<ref name="c"/><ref name="a"/>
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