Kyaw Min Yu

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Kyaw Min Yu
ကျော်မင်းယု
Born (1969-02-13) 13 February 1969 (age 52)
Shan State, Burma[1]
NationalityBurmese
Other namesKo Jimmy
EducationRangoon Arts & Sciences University
(3rd year Physics)
State High School No. 2 Kamayut
Criminal penalty65 years
Criminal statusPardoned
Spouse(s)Nilar Thein
ChildrenNay Kyi Min Yu
Parent(s)Tin Yu (father)
Ahmar Nyunt (mother)

Kyaw Min Yu (Burmese: ကျော်မင်းယု, also known as Ko Jimmy) is a writer, former Burmese political prisoner, and a member of the 88 Generation Students Group.

Career[]

Activism[]

Kyaw Min Yu rose to prominence during the 8888 Uprising, as a student activist.[2][3] He spent 15 years, from 1988 to 1996, in prison for participating in the 8888 Uprising.[4] He was released from prison on 13 January 2012, after spending another 5 years in prison, for protesting fuel price hikes with the 88 Generation Students Group in August 2007.[5]

Writing[]

He wrote the self-help book Making Friendship (မိတ်ဖြစ်ဆွေဖြစ်), which became a bestseller, in 2005.[6] On 6 September 2012, he published a novel, The Moon in Inle Lake (လမင်းဆန္ဒာအင်းလေးကန်), which had been written in 2010 during a prison sentence in Taunggyi.[6] While serving a sentence in Taunggyi, he wrote a number of political post-modern short stories, published in Japan, under the pen name Pan Pu Lwin Pyin.[6] Ko Jimmy translated numerous novels, including Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, while in prison.[6]

2021 Myanmar coup d'etat[]

On 13 February 2021, in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Kyaw Min Yu and six other high profile individuals,[7] namely Min Ko Naing, Myo Yan Naung Thein, Insein Aung Soe, Mg Mg Aye, Pencilo, and Lynn Lynn were charged and issued arrest warrants under section 505 (b) of the penal code by the State Administration Council for inciting unrest against the state and threatening "public tranquility" through their social media posts.[8][9][10][11] He was arrested in Dagon Township on 23 October.[12] On January 23, 2022 the Myanmar Military Tribunal sentenced Yu to death.[13]

Publications[]

  • Making Friendship (2005)
  • The Moon in Inle Lake (2012)

Personal life[]

Ko Jimmy is married to Nilar Thein, a political activist.[14] The couple have a daughter, Nay Chi Min Yu.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ "Political Prisoner Profile No. 0050" (PDF). Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma). 7 August 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
  2. ^ "The Story of Ko Jimmy". NPR.org. 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  3. ^ "Myanmar activist arrested in junta raid: wife". sg.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  4. ^ Andrews, Jim (4 September 2007). "A Very Special Kind of Courage". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
  5. ^ Beech, Hannah (16 January 2012). "With U.S.-Burma Ties on the Mend, Will a Lifting of Sanctions Be Next?". Global Spin. TIME. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
  6. ^ a b c d "Another student leader, another book". The Myanmar Times. 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  7. ^ "Tatmadaw charges activists, public figures for crimes against the state". The Myanmar Times. 14 February 2021.
  8. ^ "ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်၊ ကိုဂျင်မီ၊ အဆိုတော်လင်းလင်း ၊ အင်းစိန်အောင်စိုး၊ ကိုမျိုးရန်နောင်သိမ်း၊ ပန်ဆယ်လို နှင့် မောင်မောင်အေး တို့အား ရာဇသတ်ကြီး ပုဒ်မ ၅၀၅(ခ)ဖြင့် တရားစွဲထားပြီး ဖမ်းဝရမ်းထုတ်ထားကြောင်း တပ်မတော် ကြေညာ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 13 February 2021.
  9. ^ "ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်အပါအဝင် နာမည်ကြီး လူပုဂ္ဂိလ် (၇)ဦးကို ဖမ်းဝရမ်းထုတ် [Issued an arrest warrant of 7 famous people including Min Ko Naing]". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 13 February 2021.
  10. ^ "ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်အပါအဝင် ခုနစ်ဦးကို စစ်အစိုးရ ဖမ်းဝရမ်းထုတ်". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 13 February 2021.
  11. ^ "ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်၊ ကိုဂျင်မီ၊ အဆိုတော်လင်းလင်းတို့ အ���ါအဝင် (၇) ဦးကို ဖမ်းဝရမ်းထုတ်". Duwun (in Burmese). 13 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Myanmar junta arrests 88 Generation leader Ko Jimmy". Myanmar NOW. 2021-10-24. Retrieved 2021-11-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "Myanmar military tribunal sentences prominent activist, former lawmaker to death". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
  14. ^ "Home of the free: the Burmese family that democracy brought back". The Independent. 2012-05-28. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  15. ^ "၈၈ မျိုးဆက် ခေါင်းဆောင် မနီလာသိန်း ထောင်ပြောင်းပေးရေး တောင်းဆို". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2021-11-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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