Ko Mya Aye

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Ko Mya Aye[1] is one of the leaders of the 8888 generation pro-democracy student activists in Burma. He was overwhelmingly elected as the Politician of the Year 2006 Burma , by BURMA DIGESTreaders.

Read in Burmese:[2] He had led a wide campaign for a signature petition to release all political prisoners when most of the Political Leaders were put into jail by Myanmar Military Junta, SPDC, to silence the opposition. He took over all the responsibilities after Min Ko Naing, Pyone Cho, MinZaYa, Htay Kywel and Ko Ko Gyi were arrested.

Mizzima News,Ko Dee's, Junta pins democracyactivists to the wall [3]

BBC Report about Ko Mya Aye_[4]

RFA REPORT ABOUT KO MYA AYE-[5]

DVB Report, by Aye Naing _88 students call for agreement on reforms [6]

FRONT LINE Human Rights defenders_ [7]

Burma Digest_[8]

The top leaders were arrested on 27 June 2006 on the 18th anniversary of the founding of the National League for Democracy.

On the 02nd October the remaining 88 Generation Students group started_

•the first-ever-public- campaign against the SPDC

•and gathered signatures for a petition calling for the release of political prisoners, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

More than half a million people sign the petition although they were harassed by SPDC Kyant Phuts and their thugs. The signatures were later presented to the UN.

Later they organized_

•White Expression

•requesting the people to wear white clothes to protest the SPDC. It was continued until the 44th birthday of Ko Min Ko Naing on 18 October.

On 29 October, they started a third campaign,

•called Multi Religious Prayer Campaign,

•and requested the people to wear white clothing and hold candlelight vigils and prayers in temples, churches and mosques.

On 22 August 2007, a rare public protest over a sharp rise in fuel prices led to a wave arrests by the Burmese junta. Those arrested included the senior leadership of the 88 Generation Students group as well as members of other student and civil advocacy groups.Hundreds of demonstrators had taken to the streets to express their anger at the surprise increase in fuel prices. Natural gas prices have risen 500% and petrol and diesel prices have almost doubled, according to the Guardian. The rise has hit poor labourers particularly hard, swallowing up to half of their daily income.

The 88 Generation Students group is an organisation synonymous with the long struggle for democracy in military-ruled Burma and take their name from a 1988 student-led uprising crushed by the military. In a rare announcement in all state-run newspapers, the junta said that the dissidents were arrested for undermining the peace and security of the state, according to The Epoch Times.

Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, Ko Mya Aye, Ko Pyone Cho, Ko Jimmy and Ko Yin Htun were among those from the 88 Generation Student group arrested. On 21 August 2007, 14 student leader of the 88 Student Generation of Democracy were arrested.

The 14 members are Paw U Tun (also known as Min Ko Naing), Ko Ko Gyi, Pyone Cho (also known as Htay Win Aung), Min Zeyar, Ko Mya Aye, Ko Jimmy (Kyaw Min Yu), Zeya, Ant Bwe Kyaw, Kyaw Kyaw Htwe (Marki), Panneik Tun, Zaw Zaw Min, Thet Zaw, Nyan Lin Tun, Ko Yin Htun,They were arrested by security officials and members of the state backed Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA). So the 88 Generation Student Group Leader Ko Mya Aye, Burmese Muslim is a prime mover and shaker of Burma Politics in 2006-2007.

"Military intelligence and government intelligence seized their houses and searched their houses,” another dissident, Htay Kywe, who escaped, said from neighbouring Thailand.Despite the arrests, reports from Burma said campaigners again took to the streets yesterday to protest against the government’s recent increase in fuel prices.

No warrants were produced for the arrests and according to an article published in the state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar they will be charged under Law 5/96, which provides for up to 20 years in prison, for their involvement in “acts undermining the efforts to successfully carry out peaceful transfer of state power and facilitate the proceedings of the National Convention.” Following the arrests, members of the securityforces allegedly searched the homes of the afore-mentioned individuals and confiscated documents and compact discs. Reports claim that they were detained at Kyaikkasan Detention Centre before being transferred to the notorious Insein prison outside Yangon where they may be at risk of torture, including beatings and electric shocks.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Ko Mya Aye, Burmese Muslim (88 Students Group Leader) [1]/

[edit] External links

  1. Ko Mya Aye, Burmese Muslim (88 Students Group Leader)[9]
  2. BURMA DIGESTPolitician of the Year 2006 Burma ,by BURMA DIGESTreaders. Read in Burmese:[10]
  3. Mizzima News,Ko Dee's, Junta pins democracy activists to the wall Italic text [11]
  4. BBC Report about Ko Mya Aye_[12]
  5. RFA REPORT ABOUT KO MYA AYE-[13]
  6. DVB Report, by Aye Naing _88 students call for agreement on reforms [14]
  7. FRONT LINE Human Rights defenders_ [15]
  8. Burma Digest_[16]