Thakin Tin Mya
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Who is Thakin Tin Mya?
Thakin Tin Mya is a Burmese politician.
Tin Mya joined the anti-colonial movement Dobama Asiayone. In 1945, he served as political commissar in the Seventh Military Region of the Burma National Army. In the same year he was included in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Burma as an alternate member.
When the Communist Party was divided in early 1946, he joined Thakin Soe's break-away group.
Thakin Tin Mya was expelled from the Red Flag Communist Party in 1949. Subsequently, he returned to the Communist Party of Burma.
He was arrested and jailed in 1957. He was released from prison in 1960, but was again jailed for a shorter period in 1962. He later joined the governing Burma Socialist Programme Party and was included in the Central Committee of the party.
Thakin Tin Mya voiced support for the 1988 pro-democracy protests, although he himself did not join the movement.
Thakin Tin Mya has written a five-volume work on the history of the struggle against Japanese occupation of Burma during the Second World War.
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