Nai
Nai or NAI may refer to:
Music
* ''Nai'' (album), an album by singer Anna Vissi
* Nai (pan flute), a wind instrument, also known as a pan flute (Romania and Moldova)
* "Nai" (song), a 2007 CD single by Irini Merkouri
Organizations
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Shwe Kyin (1 March 1913 – 7 March 2003) was a Burmese civil rights revolutionary during the country's transition from British colonial rule and through the ensuing civil war between the insurgent ruling Burmese and the
Mon
Mon, MON or Mon. may refer to:
Places
* Mon State, a subdivision of Myanmar
* Mon, India, a town in Nagaland
* Mon district, Nagaland
* Mon, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
* Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Canton of Grisons
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minority.
As a youth activist at the
Rangoon University, Shwe Kyin founded the civil rights group "Mon Freedom League" and was jailed when civil war broke out on the eve of Burmese independence in 1948.
Upon his release two years later, Shwe Kyin joined in the armed revolutionary group known as the
Mon People Front
Mon, MON or Mon. may refer to:
Places
* Mon State, a subdivision of Myanmar
* Mon, India, a town in Nagaland
* Mon district, Nagaland
* Mon, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
* Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Canton of Grisons
* An ...
(MPF).
In 1958, the MPF surrendered their arms in a pact with the Burmese ruling class to participate in elections as a legal political party. In defiance, Shwe Kyin refused to disarm and founded the
New Mon State Party
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to continue an armed struggle. This group gained favor among young Mon students and eventually replaced the MPF as the primary Mon armed resistance.
In 1990, he became the President of National Democratic Front (NDF), an umbrella political organization of ethnic nationalities.
In 1995, the New Mon State Party agreed to ceasefire with the current regime. Nai Shwe Kyin died in 2003.
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OVERSEAS MONS REMEMBER NAI SHWE KYIN
20th-century births
2003 deaths
People from Kayin State
Burmese people of Mon descent
Youth activists
Burmese military personnel
University of Yangon alumni
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