Maung Maung

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Maung Maung
မောင်မောင်
7th President of Burma
In office
19 August 1988 – 18 September 1988
Vice PresidentAye Ko[1]
Preceded byAye Ko as Acting President
Succeeded bySaw Maung as Chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration Council
Chairman of the Burma Socialist Programme Party
In office
19 August 1988 – 18 September 1988
Preceded bySein Lwin
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born(1925-01-31)31 January 1925
Rangoon University (BA
, 1946)
OccupationHistorian, journalist, lawyer, politician, professor, writer

Dr Maung Maung (

president of Burma
from 19 August 1988 to 18 September 1988.

Early life and career

Maung Maung was born on 31 January 1925 in

Burma Defence Army (BDA) as a private and later joined the Resistance Movement against the Japanese in 1945. At this point, Maung began his journalistic career as an English-language correspondent for the Rangoon Review. As a young man, his love of camping and outdoor activities once led him to join the Union of Burma Boy Scouts and he eventually rose to the rank of King's Scout
.

In 1946, he received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English from

Burma Railways
.

In 1950, he received a state scholarship to study in the

the Netherlands
and began his first doctorate under the supervision of Professor J.H.W. Verzijl.

Upon his return to

Rangoon in 1953, he worked as a Law Officer in the Attorney-General's office. Concurrently, he founded The Guardian, an English-language monthly magazine in Burma, which was later published as a daily English-language newspaper in 1955 to rival other newspapers like The Nation and The Rangoon Times. This earned him immense recognition abroad and Maung was invited to attend and contribute to international seminars and conferences in Australia, Cambodia, Malaya, Pakistan, Singapore, South Vietnam and West Germany. In June 1956, he returned to the Netherlands to receive his Doctor of Laws (LLD) from Utrecht University
.

In 1960, Maung temporarily relocated to the United States, as a Visiting Lecturer in Political Science and Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University, with his family.[2] During his stay at Yale, he earned a Doctor of Juridical Science (JSD), on 11 June 1962.[2] Despite offers of employment from his American friends and UN Secretary-General U Thant, he decided to return to Burma with his family in July 1962.

Political office

Maung Maung served as a Deputy Minister in the Attorney-General's Office and was part of the official Burma delegation to the 14th session of the

another military coup led by General Saw Maung on 18 September 1988.[5][6] After his brief spell in power in 1988, Maung Maung disappeared from the public eye, although it was rumoured that he helped draft the election law governing the 1990 general election. He also served in various capacities in the successive governments of Burma as Attorney-General, Supreme Judge-General and other positions.[7]

Publications

Among Maung's well-known publications are:

  1. London Diary (1958)
  2. The Forgotten Army (1946)
  3. Burma in the Family of Nations (1956)
  4. General Ne Win and Myanmar Politics (1969 — Won the National Literary Award in Politics)
  5. Thet-shi-yar-za-win (1956 — Living History—Books on Biography of Statesmen)
  6. To a soldier son (1972)
  7. The 1988 Uprising in Burma

Family

Maung died of a heart attack in Yangon, Myanmar on 2 July 1994, aged 69.

He had seven children with his wife, Daw Khin Myint. One of his three sons, former Brig-Gen of LID 22, U Kyaw Thu (Retd.) held the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs on the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), from 2004 to 2009 and served as chairman of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) from 2008 to 2010 and chairman of the Union Civil Service Board from 2009 to 2016. Prior to those positions, he served as Myanmar's Ambassador to South Africa from 1999 to 2002 and Myanmar's Ambassador to India from 2003 to 2004.[8]

One of his four daughters, Daw Yin Yin Oo became a member of the Advisory Board of State Administration Council (SAC) after the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.[9] She previously served as the deputy director-general of the International Organizations and Economic Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under President Thein Sein's administration from 2011 to 2016.[10][11]

References

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  3. ^ Mydans, Seth (20 August 1988). "Man in the News: U Maung Maung; Widely Traveled Leader for Rangoon". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "U Maung Maung (president of Burma) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on 29 April 2011.
  5. ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-8079830.html [dead link]
  6. ^ "Maung Maung, Ex-President Of Burma, Dies". The Washington Post. 1 May 2011. Archived from the original on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Maung Maung Papers". Archived from the original on 28 May 2006.
  8. ^ Lwin, Min. "Who is Kyaw Thu?".
  9. ^ "US Citizen Among the Advisers to Myanmar Military Regime Despite Sanctions Imposed by US". The Irrawaddy. 20 February 2021.
  10. ^ "2014 Participant List Myanmar" (PDF). Pacific Forum.
  11. ^ Lintner, Bertil (21 February 2021). "Myanmar's coup regime cut of old military cloth". Asia Times.
Political offices
Preceded by
President of Burma

19 August 1988 – 17 September 1990 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Chairman of the Burma Socialist Programme Party
19 August 1988 – 17 September 1990 		Succeeded by
Office abolished
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