Thakin Mya

Thakin Mya was a Burmese lawyer and politician.
He organized Peasants and Workers Party in 1938, and was imprisoned by the British from 1940 to 1942. He was deputy prime minister in the pro-Japanese Indepedent Government from 1943 to 1945. In 1947 he was in the executive council of Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League.
He served as the Minister of Home Affairs and in June 1947 transferred as Minister of Finance in Myanmar's pre-independence government. Mya and six other cabinet ministers were assassinated on 19 July 1947 in Yangon. He was unofficially considered as Deputy Prime Minister in Aung San 's Cabinet. 19 July is commemorated each year as the Martyrs' Day in Myanmar.
The Thakin Mya Park in Yangon is named after Thakin Mya.