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Demonstrators ride scooters during a rally to mark the 77th anniversary of the 1947 assassination of Myanmar independence heroes including Gen. Aung San, late father of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Friday, July 19, 2024, in Launglon township in Tanintharyi region, Myanmar. (Democracy Movement Strike Committee-Dawei via AP)

Demonstrators ride scooters during a rally to mark the 77th anniversary of the 1947 assassination of Myanmar independence heroes including Gen. Aung San, late father of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Friday, July 19, 2024, in Launglon township in Tanintharyi region, Myanmar. (Democracy Movement Strike Committee-Dawei via AP)

A demonstrator holds a portrait of Gen. Aung San, during a saluting ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the 1947 assassination of Myanmar independence heroes including Gen. Aung San, late father of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Friday, July 19, 2024, in Launglon township in Tanintharyi region, Myanmar. (Democracy Movement Strike Committee-Dawei via AP)

A demonstrator holds a portrait of Gen. Aung San, during a saluting ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the 1947 assassination of Myanmar independence heroes including Gen. Aung San, late father of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Friday, July 19, 2024, in Launglon township in Tanintharyi region, Myanmar. (Democracy Movement Strike Committee-Dawei via AP)

FILE - Gen. Aung San, then leader of the Myanmar government, arrives at 10 Downing Street, the residence and office of Britain's Prime Minister, in London, on Jan. 13, 1947. Myanmar’s military government held a wreath-laying ceremony in the country’s largest city Friday July 19, 2024 to mark the anniversary of the assassination of the country’s fallen independence heroes, including Gen. Aung San, the father of the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - Gen. Aung San, then leader of the Myanmar government, arrives at 10 Downing Street, the residence and office of Britain's Prime Minister, in London, on Jan. 13, 1947. Myanmar’s military government held a wreath-laying ceremony in the country’s largest city Friday July 19, 2024 to mark the anniversary of the assassination of the country’s fallen independence heroes, including Gen. Aung San, the father of the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo, File)

Demonstrators march during a rally to mark the 77th anniversary of the 1947 assassination of Myanmar independence heroes including Gen. Aung San, late father of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Friday, July 19, 2024, in Launglon township in Tanintharyi region, Myanmar. (Democracy Movement Strike Committee-Dawei via AP)

Demonstrators march during a rally to mark the 77th anniversary of the 1947 assassination of Myanmar independence heroes including Gen. Aung San, late father of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Friday, July 19, 2024, in Launglon township in Tanintharyi region, Myanmar. (Democracy Movement Strike Committee-Dawei via AP)