Maung Maung | |
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မောင်မောင် | |
| 7th President of Burma | |
| In office 19 August 1988 – 18 September 1988 | |
| Vice President | Aye Ko[1] |
| Preceded by | Aye Ko as Acting President |
| Succeeded by | Saw 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 by | Sein Lwin |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 January 1925 Mandalay, British Burma |
| Died | 2 July 1994 (aged 69) Yangon, Myanmar |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Political party | Burma Socialist Programme Party |
| Spouse | Khin Myint |
| Relations | U Sint (father) Daw Aye Tin (mother) |
| Children | 7, including Yin Yin Oo |
| Alma mater | Yale University (JSD, 1962) Utrecht University (LLD, 1956) University of London (LLB, 1953 Rangoon University (BA, 1946) |
| Occupation | Historian, journalist, lawyer, politician, professor, writer |
Dr Maung Maung (Burmese: ဒေါက်တာမောင်မောင် [màʊɰ̃ màʊɰ̃]; 31 January 1925 – 2 July 1994) was a well-known writer and legal scholar in Myanmar, who served as the seventh president of Burma from 19 August 1988 to 18 September 1988.
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walking up through the entrance to a temple here in began in Myanmar where Simon and I are running one of our workshops came across some amazing photos and I wanted to share them with you guys because they're absolutely breathtaking got chatting with the photographer his name is Maung Maung, he's won several international awards and he makes his living from photography and interestingly there's lot's of things which he's been saying which I've been saying to you and I just love you to hear some stuff from him he's a lovely guy so come and meet Maung Maung. Thank you for talking to us, yeah yeah. that's very kind of you, thank you. Please can you show me your pictures you won the awards for, yeah yeah. Let's have a look. so this is one of your books, yeah this is an prize-winner from japan, okay UNESCO pract UNESCO prize for photography, yes in which year? this is round about roughly yep nearly didn't know me on and was the snow was the other major I don't know, yeah yeah. what is this picture? this is a prize I won for canon, canon one camera prize, Canon one camera photo award yep okay this may be five years ago yes something like that okay and was this taken with digital a no this is a film film, was it a slide film or is it no print print film, negative, negative film. wow that's amazing, yeah. Do you shoot any photos with digital? er some yeah I have of digital, ok, this was a digital. this was shot with digital. this was shot with digital? yeah, what is your digital camera? I'm using known as a Nikon, which one? er D700, Nikon D700 okay and you make your living from photography yes and do you work Just in? yes just in began also the whole country I would probably the whole country, okay. I like to travel alot yeah so some of the pictures this is the Allen cave so from here to about nearly 100 miles so some are you know the cave, let me look at the picture again for the cave, yeah. so we have these beautiful yeah, this beautiful light coming through what is this, the light, is it moisture in the air, its from the wall when the light comes there, but we make the fire the smoke comes up I was thinking how you get the okay I have and no reason like that so you, okay so we have the person here yeah, and you'd lit the fire on purpose. yeah that also won the prize form the Canon, This guy's really good, okay. This is, dgd okay so this is a sunrise, this is the sunrise, yeah this is my favourite one. okay, yeah this is with a 600mm lens yes, a 600mm lens, yes. so this is a not mine, one of my friends he brought a six hundred millimetre lens then you know he come over to began he call me, help me how to use it so then we worked together and this man and me. this is ah you know was sound right but the six hundred millimeter lens is really good isn't it yeah yeah, because long long it makes everything go like this, doesn't it, yeah like that. So all the stoppers behind come up closer closer yeah sure. you see the same rules of photography are happening everywhere it's not just in America and England its you know for all photographers in all the world which is why I say to people all the time think how you you have to think don't you you do photography with this yet yes you're its not just yeah I'm not like that it's in here, this one won a prize for the united state, the what? risk photo camera contact, ritz camera photo contract, yet that, I can't see I've got my glasses here, I can't see its, ok ok ritz camera photo contract I see, R I T Z, ritz camera, this is a again Maung Maung, my name there was a five hundred dollar prize, so how do you earn your money? with your photography no have your stall here. yeah, is this your only job? before you know we have you know we are many you know in the black and white yes I make in a look at people I only look at people they come from you know Italy they coming in from the boarder so they make records in black and white, yes so they make photos in black an white, yeah black and white no te mana people to be an hour just remember they question for memory pictures, and you know between 15 minutes we take it upload it, so you're doing tourist we sell it okay hey you know they were doing tourists are coming oh yes it is yet you should black and white black voters yet and in 15 minutes to process your photos as a flight back home I bring my prince sell them to the terrorism in this is your first job in reply to your fear yet and maybe I you know we're we have big in the you know and in like act who bought a graphene YouTube it you know we have been in with and we make any move some up with the compact also you know we say and are you any connects Louis and somehow we are when a branch so I'm happy so hang on you win a prize yeah this was the first prize which permits photo the 42 are can we live this no is known can see it them over there about the film this all on my own just standing with a tripod is the third the whole him up with accommodation prospect okay this was the first prize UN yeah how many years ago and is a long time ago death if you don't give away your right I you're never going to be your young man I fantastic and so writes the win a prize yeah and then you do more photography yeah and more to removably you do you sell your picture I mean obviously you you have your stand here in in the market you're not alone here but if you travel all over Myanmar yeah do you sell pictures in other ways in other places it just you and you know your no only here in the winter that you know Discordia this Cody this is as UNESCO today and on the dot money and also the PCN hey and having to hold the microphone saying everyone in your area then began the two Sep and I say this word BBC a did it this year sanctuary resort he's also you make this book yeah where you paid to make the book or did you know plus you know we like to make in the book because my class feely and like to show people home to live on the amount is my feeling so then I you know I make an important their will go so you know we sell either one this more Sizemore I'm a tin ear as everyone can see you yet to see what a handsome man up that this is an indecisive 25 your score okay this ice yes so this is a fifty dollars yes so we have made a dick so people asked any when you don't make a book I K many question for that so now yes will lead to make the book okay so then we do have them enough money then we're talking about what this court date people so babi you spend the money I'm giving them a picture one dozing book we have print have sheer be taken off and look for me paint okay nothing I'm gonna be dubious ap ideal for me there glenn said see those that this is really good at the Aces business so you know the selling them discordant ideal yeah for the hotel put up the money yeah to make the prints yep and then you share the money fifty percent the hotel fifty percent you this is part 2 your living yet and I guess as more tourists come to Myanmar mi amor it is better and better and this is just your gunshot the shop on shopper to snow either bush or not airport Yahoo leaving here in decided don't know beautiful pictures thank you is the picture you have of the Buddha and a somebody praying will find the pitch over the ice cream yeah I'm I was there yesterday yet and I know how difficult that is to photograph know if the light is so lips strong yes was from the heart the shadows are so don't be here to do drink beer so do you have to do that at a particular time of day yeah to get the nice night or deez the morning or in the afternoon order we not only you knew before you know we are making a bitch oh so you know only more need I okay between million 0729 629 sometime yes so and have gone you know evenly new phone to 46 yes I'm he sees the same in every way yeah hi I tell people in all know helms night you must go and take pictures yet when the light worked for the picture yet and they sometimes they do yes but I can only go there at lunch time you know good at my new drug-resistant yet no good this man knows right he's won awards from Canon from Kodak and in Japan and America yeah and you got some beautiful pictures send you really beautiful thank you nice and look listen to him if you don't listen to me you have to work with the light when the light is right the picture will nothing will work sorry yeah mama I didn't mean to interrupt you said so this book is available only through these hotels yeah and on your still your fantastic bpm and you still traveling across Burma yeah to photograph broken it's amazing yeah and I'm even walking through here me and Simon yeah and you know I'm doing the burn a workshop with mister Tappan come here he's lurking we've just been doing a it hello teri chhod chale jao interesting that he could see the shots is a great heights a very inspiring it is an astonishing country with the most wonderful people and I'm not saying this cuz Mau Mau is here and we'll have people that yeah some I its it is such a friendly place but is like yes sorry sorry haha yeah I kore Simon is running a photo contest with the guys on the workshops I I want to talk to my much as you have to go to young dawn yeah that's a long way from here away from your body mass I know you have to go see it yet how long does it take you to get to the end on you go about their 10 1001 Minot you're in the bus 10 hour bus journey when you coming back Maybin is to 3d okay and this is business yep with Photography Program yes fantastic a millionaire very latch new pictures to bring the new york alone I see so is better printing innuendo million get here in Bagram his began is a gate in rural so the town/city members thank you I know you have to go I'm sorry ma'am I was looking is watching a setting on the camera separately thank you first delaying you journey you talk to it's okay to shake a bit like you she's about to %uh this is about you it did subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified each time we upload one all cool photography videos well for more great photo tips workshops and training come in CSR website photography courses da pace
Early life and career
Maung Maung was born on 31 January 1925 in Mandalay, British Burma. He was the only son amongst seven children of lawyer U Sint and his wife Daw Aye Tin. He completed his comprehensive education at the Buddhist Thathana (BTN) Anglo-Vernacular School at the tender age of 14. He applied for admission to study a two-year programme in science at Mandalay Intermediate College, which he eventually completed in 1943. During this time, he joined the British Army Auxiliary Corps and attended the fourth intake of Officer Training School (OTS). In 1943, he voluntarily joined the 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 Rangoon University. Due to staff shortages, he became a lecturer in the history and English departments at Rangoon University and a resident advisor at one of the university hostels. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed to be an editor for the New Times of Burma, a daily English-language newspaper produced by the Ministry of Information. During his time at the Information Ministry, he was notably tasked with translating the first draft of the Burmese Declaration of Independence into English. A year later, he worked as an assistant secretary at Burma Railways.
In 1950, he received a state scholarship to study in the UK. He enrolled in the University of London's external law degree programme, which earned him a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1953. While in London, he also enrolled in legal studies at the Lincoln's Inn, which led to him being called to the British bar and pursued a six-month training programme in journalism and broadcasting at the BBC. In addition, he received a three-month scholarship to study international law at The Hague Academy of International Law in 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 United Nations General Assembly in General Ne Win's caretaker government from 1958 to 1960. Following Ne Win's 1962 military coup, Maung Maung became Chief Justice and, although a civilian, was a prominent member of the central committee of the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP). He played a large part in shaping the 1974 constitution and subsequent changes to the judicial system. On 19 August 1988, amidst a series of large-scale demonstrations, the People's Assembly declared Maung Maung President of Burma and Chairman of BSPP.[3][4] Anti-government demonstrations continued and widespread disruptions resulted in 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:
- London Diary (1958)
- The Forgotten Army (1946)
- Burma in the Family of Nations (1956)
- General Ne Win and Myanmar Politics (1969 — Won the National Literary Award in Politics)
- Thet-shi-yar-za-win (1956 — Living History—Books on Biography of Statesmen)
- To a soldier son (1972)
- 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
- ^ "Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1988 July–Dec". hdl:2027/osu.32435024019804.
- ^ a b Maung, Maung; Robert H. Taylor (2008). Robert H. Taylor (ed.). Dr. Maung Maung: gentleman, scholar, patriot. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ISBN 978-981-230-409-4.
- ^ Mydans, Seth (20 August 1988). "Man in the News: U Maung Maung; Widely Traveled Leader for Rangoon". The New York Times.
- ^ "U Maung Maung (president of Burma) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on 29 April 2011.
- ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-8079830.html[dead link]
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Maung Maung Papers". Archived from the original on 28 May 2006.
- ^ Lwin, Min. "Who is Kyaw Thu?".
- ^ "US Citizen Among the Advisers to Myanmar Military Regime Despite Sanctions Imposed by US". The Irrawaddy. 20 February 2021.
- ^ "2014 Participant List Myanmar" (PDF). Pacific Forum.
- ^ Lintner, Bertil (21 February 2021). "Myanmar's coup regime cut of old military cloth". Asia Times.
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