MONYWA TIN SHWE(N.L.D)

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               MONYWA TIN SHWE (1930-1997)

    
      He was born on 17th of April 1930 in Monywa city,Burma.Parents are U
Ba Po and Daw Thaung Yin.
      During 1952-1960,he actively involved in Student's Union movements in
Rangoon and Mandalay universities.
      Later, he earned a living as author and lawyer.At the height of
pro-democracy nation wide uprising in 1988,he served as a chairman of
general strike committee in Insein township,Rangoon.He also served as a
vice-chairman of lawyer association.
      He was one of the founding members and served as member of central
committee of National League for Democracy.As his main political task, he
worked as N.L.D division organizer in Mandalay.
      He was then arrested in November,1990 by the brutal S.L.O.R.C regime
and sentenced to eight years imprisonment by military tribunal on the 5th of
February 1991.
      Furthermore,the imprisonment was extended to eighteen years within a
few months. In April 1997,while he was suffered from server sickness in
prison he was refused to take proper medical treatment by the S.L.O.R.C regime.
      On 8th of Jun 1997, he sacrificed his life for his beloved people of
Burma at 1:30 PM Rangoon time. The prison authorities sent him to Rangoon
General Hospital just three hours before he died.
      At the age of 67,he left three sons and wife Daw Myat Thu when he died.
      His body was buried at North Okalapa cemetery on 12th of Jun 1997.



      Distributed by N.L.D(L.A)Australia.
      This information is authorized by Ko Ba Hein Shwe,son of Monywa Tin
Shwe.