COMPLICITY DENIED
EVIDENCE OF U SAW BURMESE ASSASSINATIONS (10 a.m.) RANGOON, Dec. 12. The former Burmese Prime Minister, U Saw, denied any knowledge of or association with the assassinations of Aung San and the six other Cabinet Ministers on' July 19, when he gave his evidence in his defence against the charges of complicity in the assassinations. “I wouldn’t have been a party to such a dastardly act,” he said. “I wouldn’t allow any of my followers to use violence.” He denied that he took part in the celebration and shouted “Victory! Vlo. tory!” when certain people returned to his home and described the murders. The Court adjourned until Monday
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22510, 13 December 1947, Page 5
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