Min ko naing biography of mahatma

However, he renamed himself Min Ko Naing. Two decades after Bobby Kennedy lead the liberals in America to a better country, Min Ko Naing lead the college generation the way Bobby did. Interestingly, his leadership to improve the human rights issue in Myanmar resulted in him being beaten, tortured, and imprisoned. When I interviewed him I mentioned to him that he spent more time in prison than I spent in college, graduate school, and post graduate school.

Min Ko Naing, whose name means in Burmese conqueror of kingswill succeed not by becoming a king but by freeing his country from military rule. His sentence was commuted to 10 years under a general amnesty in January He has been considered a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty Internationalwhich intensively campaigned for his release. According to Amnesty InternationalMin Ko Naing has been severely tortured and ill-treated during the early stages of his detention and his health suffered as a consequence.

During his interrogation he was reportedly forced to stand in water for two weeks until he collapsed, and as a result, his left foot became totally numb. In 19 Novemberhe was released from prison, after being imprisoned for 15 years. Second political imprisonment However, after almost two years of his release inMin Ko Naingalong with other four leading student leaders, was rearrested in late September Despite the military regime's insistence that it was just taking these student leaders into detention for questioning, the authorities later confirmed the arrest of Min Ko Naingas well as the other student leaders, stating that the five student leaders were held as a precaution against what the regime called internal commotion, instability and terrorism.

After heavy criticism about the arrests and demands for his immediate release, the authorities released Min Ko Naing on January 11, The rest 88 generation students who were not arrested by junta at that time organized the campaign. His health suffered as a consequence. During his interrogation he was reportedly forced to stand in water for two weeks until he collapsed, and as a result, his left foot became completely numb.

On 19 Novemberhe was released from prison after being held for 15 years. Min Ko Naing was rearrested in late September Following his release from prison, Min Ko Naing helped to found the 88 Generation Students Groupwhich continued to fight for democracy in Burma.

Min ko naing biography of mahatma

Participants wore white clothing in a show of support for the release of all political prisoners. They also organized the signature campaign to pressure the junta to release him and all political prisoners. It was started a week after Min Ko Naing and four colleagues were arrested. He said to the Irrawaddy Magazine that the campaign was to encourage the people to exercise freedom of expression.

People could write to State Peace and Development Council leader senior general Than Shwe about their feelings under the military government. The 88 Generation Students Group also conducted a "White Sunday" campaign from 11 March to 20 May to express support for family members of political prisoners. They visited the families of political prisoners in Yangon every Sunday during this period.

He was arrested again around midnight on 21 Augustwith other 13 leaders of the 88 Generation Students for organizing peaceful demonstrations. United States Government condemned the Burmese junta's arrest of them. On 11 November Min Ko Naing was sentenced to 65 years imprisonment, as 22 others had been for their role in the August demonstrations.

On 15 November Min Ko Naing was transferred to Kengtung prison in Shan State, where isolated, bleak cells were constructed in mid for solitary confinement. Min Ko Naing was released along with numerous other activists on 13 Januaryas part of a mass presidential pardon for political activists. It was believed that he would contest the general elections for a seat in Assembly of the Union[ 16 ] but he did not.

Many observers have said that beyond Aung Sann Suu Kyi, he and his colleagues are best suited to steer the country's political landscape. He has been on the run following the military coup on February 1, He has urged the public to take a "no recognition, no participation" approach to the new military regime and called on people to work together to protest against the coup.

Min Ko Naing has won numerous international awards for his activism. Inhe was announced the winner of an award from the US National Endowment for Democracybut stated his intention not to attend the ceremony in solidarity with other Burmese activists who had been denied visas. In a press conference, September 13, —at the height of the Rohingya genocide the persecution of, and attacks upon, Myanmar's mostly Muslim ethnic minority, the Rohingya -- Min Ko Naing reportedly appeared with a group of 88 Generation Peace and Open Society activists, at which the attendees issued a written statement denying the version of events portrayed in prominent international media.

Speaking at the event, Min Ko Naing sided with Myanmar's civilian government in its harsh dealing with the Rohingya community. He said that the problems in Rakhine's state were not religious or racial, but rather were about terrorism and immigration laws—stating that the Rohingya "are not one of ethnic groups in Myanmar. Contents move to sidebar hide.

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