Khun Htun Oo
| Khun Htun Oo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 September 1943 Hsipaw |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Education | LL.B. |
| Alma mater | Rangoon University |
| Known for | Political prisoner Politician |
| Home town | Hsipaw, Shan State |
| Parent(s) |
Sao Kyar Zon (father) Si Swe Joun (mother) |
| Relatives | Sao Kya Seng, Saopha of Hsipaw State (Uncle) |
Khun Htun Oo (Burmese: ခွန်ထွန်းဦး, pronounced: [kʰʊ̀ɴ tʰʊ́ɴ ʔú]; born 11 September 1943; often written U Khun Htun Oo following Burmese honorifics) is a politician from Shan State, Burma (Myanmar) who was imprisoned for treason, defamation, and inciting dissatisfaction toward the government. His sentence was protested by numerous Western governments and the human rights group Amnesty International, which named him a prisoner of conscience.
Htun Oo is ethnically Shan, and was born in 1943 in Hsipaw in Shan State. He pursued a Bachelor of Laws at Rangoon University from 1965 to 1967 before serving as assistant to the Indonesian military attaché in Burma. Htun Oo went on to become "the most senior political representative of the Shan".
After pro-democracy, anti-government protests toppled Ne Win's military dictatorship in 1988, Htun Oo stood for the 1990 parliamentary elections at the head of the Shan National League for Democracy (SNLD) party. His party gained 23 seats (220,835 votes), and within Shan State, finished ahead of even Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), which had won 59.9% of the vote nationwide. However, the military government annulled the results, the parliament never convened, and the generals continued to rule the country as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
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