Tuesday 14 February 2012

Mahn Win Maung, President of Burma in 1957


Mahn Win Maung was an ethnic Karen born on 17 April 1916 in the Irrawaddy delta, son of Daw Tharya and U Shwe Yin. He graduated with a B.A. from Yangon University's Judson College in 1937. Between 1947 and 1956 he was variously Minister of Ministry of Mining and Labour, Minister of the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunication and Minister of the Ministry of Water, Air and Costal Ship. He was imprisoned between 1962 to 1967. Mahn Win Maung died in 1989, 4july when he was 73 years old.






2 comments:

  1. Can anyone tell me if his family is still in burma??

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  2. More informations about his career as a president

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