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Burma (Myanmar)

Author · Burma (Myanmar)

Thein Pe Myint

Died in 1978

Thein Pe Myint was born on 10 July 1914 in Budalin, in Upper Burma, and studied at Rangoon University. A journalist and writer from the mid-thirties, a nationalist of Marxist leaning, he campaigned against colonial rule and was sent to India during the war to seek Allied help. Imprisoned from 1948 to 1949, he founded the daily Botataung in 1958 and ran it until its nationalisation, and died in Rangoon in January 1978.

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