Mie Mie
| Mie Mie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Thin Thin Aye 1970 (age 46–47) |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Alma mater | Dagon University |
| Occupation | democracy activist |
| Organization | 88 Generation Students Group |
| Political party | National League for Democracy |
| Spouse(s) | Hla Moe |
Thin Thin Aye (Burmese: သင်းသင်းအေး, pronounced: [θɪ́ɴ θɪ́ɴ ʔé]; better known as Mie Mie (မီးမီး, [mí mí]); born 1970), is a Burmese democracy activist who played a leadership role in numerous anti-government protests. She was imprisoned three times between 1988 and 2012, and Amnesty International considered her to be a prisoner of conscience.
In the summer of 1988, a series of protests escalated in Yangon and other cities demanding the resignation of General Ne Win, Burma's military ruler. These protests took their name from the date of the largest march, 8-8-88. Mie Mie, a 10th-grade high school student at the time, joined the uprising and became active in the All Burma Federation of Student Unions. On 7 March 1989, she was arrested for the first time for distributing fliers commemorating the one-year anniversary of the death of Phone Maw, whose killing by security forces helped prompt the previous year's uprising. She was detained for three months, then released. In 1990, she traveled to campaign on behalf of the National League for Democracy (NLD).
In 1996, Mie Mie was studying at Dagon University in Yangon when she took part in a protest and was subsequently arrested. She was then imprisoned for seven years in Tharyarwaddy Prison.
Following her 2003 release, she became involved with the pro-democracy 88 Generation Students Group. When rising fuel and commodity prices led to widespread unrest in Yangon in August 2007, the 8888 Generation Students Group played a major role in organizing protests. The largest of these rallies drew over one hundred thousand protesters, most notably a number of Buddhist monks, giving the uprising the popular nickname "The Saffron Revolution" for the color of their robes.The New York Times described Mie Mie as "prominent in photographs and videos of the first small demonstrations", noting that she appeared in the shots "with her fist raised".
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