, image = File:U Chan Htoon.JPG , alt = , caption = , birth_name = , birth_date = Maung Maung 2008: 568 , birth_place = , death_date = , death_place = , nationality =

Burmese Burmese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia * Burmese people * Burmese language * Burmese alphabet * Burmese cuisine * Burmese culture Animals * Burmese cat * Burmese chicken * Burmese (horse), a ...

, other_names = , known_for = Architect of the 1947

Constitution of Burma The Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar () is the supreme law of Myanmar. Myanmar's first constitution adopted by constituent assembly was enacted for the Union of Burma in 1947. After the 1962 Burmese coup d'état, a second ...

, occupation = Lawyer, Judge , parents = , spouse = Khin Khin Thein , children = 8, including

Ye Htoon Ye Htoon, (; ) also known as Roland Chan Htoon , (1937 – 7 May 2010) was a prominent Burmese lawyer, sometime-jailed political dissident, and a successful entrepreneur, and one of the notables of the now-extinct Scouting movement in Burma. ...

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Ananda College Ananda College () is a Prestigious Buddhist school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is often known as "The Pinnacle of buddhist education " It is the largest national Buddhist school for boys in Sri Lanka, with a student population exceeding 8000 ac ...

University College, Rangoon , awards =

Justice In its broadest sense, justice is the idea that individuals should be treated fairly. According to the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', the most plausible candidate for a core definition comes from the ''Institutes (Justinian), Inst ...

Chan Htoon ( my-Mymr, ချန်ထွန်း, ; 23 April 1906 – 16 May 1988) was

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and

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of the

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, and the architect of the first constitution of

Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...

in 1947. He was educated at

Ceylon Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

(now Sri Lanka), where he passed matriculation in 1928. Afterward, he studied at the University College, Rangoon and became a lawyer in 1931, after he was

called to the Bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

by the

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. Chan Htoon served as the President of the

World Fellowship of Buddhists The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) is an international Buddhist organization. Initiated by Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera, it was founded in 1950 in Colombo, Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), by representatives from 27 nations. Although Therav ...

from 1958 to 1963. He was imprisoned from 1963 to 1967 by the Burmese military government. After his release he devoted the rest of his life to

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including supporting the task of translating

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texts into English. He was married to Khin Khin Thein and had several children (eight children), including

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chan Htoon 1906 births 1988 deaths Imprisonment and detention 20th-century Burmese lawyers Alumni of Ananda College University of Yangon alumni People from British Burma Attorneys general of Burma my:ချန်ထွန်း၊ ဦး(တရားဝန်ကြီး)