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Horns honked and sirens wailed as Myanmar revived a tribute that was silenced for decades to the country’s slain independence hero, the father of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Adding a modern twist, many people played siren-like ring tones Friday to mark the moment at 10:37 a.m. when Gen. Aung San was assassinated by gunmen at a cabinet meeting on July 19, 1947.

State-owned radio stations used to broadcast sirens in Aung San’s honor but the custom was stopped for more than 20 years by the country’s former military rulers.

The junta ceded power in 2011 to a nominally civilian government that has embarked on wide-ranging reforms.

Last year, for the first time in decades state television broadcast a memorial to Aung San.

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has offered to help negotiate an end to conflicts between the government and the country’s ethnic minority groups, a challenge the country’s president called essential to building democracy.

Suu Kyi made the offer in a videotaped speech Tuesday to members of her National League for Democracy party on Union Day, which marks when her late father Gen. Aung San signed a 1947 agreement with leaders of the country’s ethnic minorities to gain independence from Britain together.

Last week, the government and Kachin ethnic rebels held talks on ways to avoid military confrontations after battling almost daily since late December. Suu Kyi had drawn criticism from the Kachin for not pushing the government to end its attacks.

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