Kyaw Nyein

The Right Honourable U Kyaw Nyein (1915–1986) was a Burmese politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Burma from 1948 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1958. He was also the first Burmese Home Affairs Minister from 1947 to 1948 and the second Foreign Affairs Minister from 1948 to 1949 after independence and General Secretary of his party from 1946 to 1958 as a Socialist Staunch leader in Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League from 1946 to 1958 until the split in the party. He subsequently became a leader of the Stable AFPFL faction alongside Ba Swe. He was arrested in 1963 after Ne Win's 1962 coup and released in 1968. He died in Rangoon in 1986.[1] He has been called "the brain of Burma's drive to socialism."[2]

References

  1. ↑ Taylor, Robert (2015). General Ne Win: A Political Biography. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 500.
  2. ↑ Egreteau, Renaud (2013). Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma. NUS Press. p. 90.
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