Tint Swe ( my, တင့်ဆွေ; born 9 August 1948) is a Burmese physician and politician who was elected MP for Pyithu Hluttaw in the 1990 election. He has served as Minister for Prime Minister's Office of National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB). He also served as the Minister for Information in office from 23 January 2009 to 14 September 2012, and chairperson of the National League for Democracy-Liberated Area (India).

Early life and education

Tint Swe was born on 9 August 1948 in Minywa village,

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to Ba Cho and Khin Khin. He graduated high school from State High School No. 2 in Monywa. He graduated from the

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with medical degree (MBBS) in 1972, and spent 15 years practicing as a medical officer in

Monywa Monywa (; ) is the largest city in Sagaing Region, Myanmar, located north-west of Mandalay on the eastern bank of the River Chindwin. Monywa is one of the largest economic cities in Myanmar. It is also known as Neem city because many of the cit ...

Ngazun Nganzun is a town in the Mandalay Region of central Myanmar. It is the seat of Nganzun Township Ngazun Township is a township of Myingyan District in the Mandalay Division of Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. ...

, Sagaing,

. In 1970, he married Mya Mya Aye, and he resigned from government service in 1988.

Career

Tint Swe joined the National League for Democracy in 1988, after the 8888 Uprising. In the 1990 elections, he was elected as the Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Constituency No. 2 of

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Sagaing Division Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...

winning a majority of 33,195 (61.08% of the votes), but was not allowed to assume his seat. He was among the elected MPs who worked clandestinely to form the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma. In October 1990, he escaped from arrest and fled to India. Tint Swe joined the NCGUB and served as senior representative from 1991 to 1995. Then, he became a Sein Win's cabinet minister for NCGUB. He also served as Minister for Prime Minister's Office (West) and Minister for Health and Education. On 14 September 2012, NCGUB was officially dissolved and he retired from NCGUB. He had served as the chairman of Burma Centre Delhi (BCD). He then founded the Yamuna Clinic in 2002, a project to offer free primary medical health care to Burmese refugees in Delhi. He lived in India for many years and pursued with the Indian media and civil society for supporting the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar. He arrived in India on 21 December 1990 and left for the USA on 18 September 2014. Now, he resides in

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, Indiana, United States. He visited Burma for the first time after years in May 2018. He stayed there for 7 weeks in Burma and returned to Indianapolis on 19 June 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tint Swe Government ministers of Myanmar National League for Democracy politicians Members of Pyithu Hluttaw 1948 births Living people 20th-century Burmese physicians People from Sagaing Region