Than Zaw

My name is Than Zaw and I am using Thant Zaw Thanlyin as my pen name for my writings. My father is U Myint Sein and my mother is Daw Sein Sein. I was born at 7:30 am on 8 March 1963. During the uprising, I participated at four sided strike. It was central strike of four towns namely Thanlyin, Kyauk Tan, Kha Yan and Thone Gwa and I was being a part of that demonstration. Later, I established an association and named it myself as Myanmar Human Rights Movements Association. We held the meetings with university students and formed the committees. I was nominated as chairman. Then, I worked as chirman and printed a lot of papers under the title of Myanmar Human Rights Movements Association. I had a paper mill and I couldn’t sell the paper during uprising. Therefore, I took them all and printed using wax rolls. Although people called as wax roll, it wasn’t wax. There was a monastery named Mingalar Kan Oo monastery in Bo Gyoke village of Thanlyin Township. A monk from that monastery liked me and allowed me typing at his monastery using typewritter. I couldn’t type professionally and sometimes I used to type with one hand only. I produced thousands of pamphlets explaining something about human rights and unity, etc and spread them as propaganda. A month later, there was military coup on 18th and we stayed silent as we were unbalance in capacity. Later, they came to the house where I opened/ran Myanmar Human Rights Associations and tore down all the papers. They also destroyed the ward boards but didn’t destroy the house.