by May Oo/Feng Yingqiu
YANGON, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar government leaders and high ranking officials were commemorating fallen national independence heroes including General Aung San and eight others who were assassinated in 1947 during their struggle to regain the country's independence from the British colonial rule on Tuesday, a sunny morning.
In Nay Pyi Taw, President U Htin Kyaw and the country's First Lady Daw Su Su Lwin present offertories to Senior Monks at a donation ceremony in memory of the martyr leaders.
In the former capital of Yangon, it was a state ceremony annually held at the Martyrs' Mausoleum and this year's event marked the 69th.
With Myanmar's national flag flown at half-mast across the country, people from different walks of life crowded at the Mausoleum to pay their tributes for the country's nine heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country's independence.
The previous Prime Ministers' Office (then called Secretariat) in downtown Yangon, where General Aung San and eight others were assassinated, was also open on the day to the public for memorial visit for the first time in over two decades.
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