U Wisara was a Burmese monk, and a national hero of the nation of Myanmar

Myanmar

Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

. He was one of the prominent activists against the British rule of Burma. He was captured eventually by the British and put in jail where he died 166 days later after a hunger strike. In Yangon

Yangon

Yangon is a former capital of Burma and the capital of Yangon Region . Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial...

 (Rangoon) he is commemorated with the U Wisara Road and the U Wisara Monument

U Wisara Monument

U Wisara Monument is a statue of U Wisara in Yangon, Burma. It is located directly west of the southwest corner of Kandawgyi Lake on U Wisara Road and is located several metres southwest of the Shwedagon Pagoda. The statue was erected on August 1, 1943....

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