Tint Swe (; born 9 August 1948) is a Burmese physician and politician who was elected MP for

Pyithu Hluttaw The Pyithu Hluttaw (, ; House of Representatives) is the ''de jure'' lower house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma). It consists of 440 members, of which 330 are directly elected through the first-past-the ...

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, Pale,

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to Ba Cho and Khin Khin. He graduated

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from State High School No. 2 in Monywa. He graduated from the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay with medical degree (MBBS) in 1972, and spent 15 years practicing as a medical officer in

Monywa Monywa (; ) is the largest city and capital city of 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' beca ...

, Ngazun,

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

Career

Tint Swe joined the

National League for Democracy The National League for Democracy (, ; Abbreviation, abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a deregistered liberal democratic political party in Myanmar (formerly Burma). It became the country's ruling party after a landslide victo ...

in 1988, after the

8888 Uprising The 8888 Uprising, also known as the People Power Uprising and the 1988 Uprising, was a series of nationwide protests, marches, and riots in Burma (present-day Myanmar) that peaked in August 1988. Key events occurred on 8 August 1988 and ther ...

. In the 1990 elections, he was elected as the Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Constituency No. 2 of

Pale Township Pale Township is a township in Yinmabin District in the Sagaing Division of Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwe ...

Sagaing Division Sagaing Region (, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative divisions of Myanmar, administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and longitude 94° 97' east. It is border ...

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

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. 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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. 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

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