Maw Htun Aung
Maw Htun Aung | |
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မော်ထွန်းအောင် | |
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Electricity and Energy of theNational Unity Government of Myanmar | |
Assumed office 26 July 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1984 (age 39–40) Myitkyina,Myanmar[1] |
Political party | Shan Nationalities League for Democracy |
Alma mater | University of Computer Studies, Yangon Hong Kong Polytechnic University Cornell University |
Occupation | Politician Social activist Technologist |
LahpaiMaw Htun Aung(Burmese:လဖိုင်မော်ထွန်းအောင်;bornc. 1984) is a Burmese politician, social activist and technologist.[2]He is a deputy minister of electricity and energy of theNational Unity Government of Myanmarformed by the opponents of the2021 Myanmar coup d'état.[3]
Early life and education[edit]
Born to a small-scaleHpakantjade miner, when Maw Htun Aung was in high school, he experienced his father going bankrupt when the military enacted a gemstone law to make way for military-linked companies to exploit the area.[4]This encouraged him to work on community development activities, providing technical support related to natural resource management.[5]
He got his bachelor's degree from theUniversity of Computer Studies, Yangon.In 2010 he completed his master's degree in policy and social development fromHong Kong Polytechnic University.He also pursued a Master of Public Administration degree atCornell University.[6]
Social activities[edit]
Since 2004[4]Maw Htun Aung has been working at a number of international non-government organizations such as the Myanmar Compassion Project, World Vision Myanmar, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Spectrum-SDKN.[5]He has also worked as a country manager at the New York-basedNatural Resource Governance Institute(NRGI) for about five years.[7]In 2015 he co-founded and worked as a strategic consultant at Another Development, a research group focused on implementation of public policy.[5]
Political career[edit]
Maw Htun Aung joined theUnion Peace Dialogue Joint Committee(UPDJC) as technical support for its political organizations.[4]
In the2020 general election,he contested the fifth constituency ofShan State,which consists of the townships ofMu Se,KutkaiandNamhkam,for theAmyotha Hluttaw(Upper House).[8]Realizing that "there would be a lot of restrictions [in theNLD party] for him if he talks about the rights of ethnic people ", Maw Htun Aung represented theShan Nationalities League for Democracy(SNLD), a major ethnic party in Shan State, at the election.[9]While Maw Htun Aung is ethnicallyKachin,he took the unusual step of running for a party associated with theShan people.He claimed in an interview that this was to serve as an example of inter-ethnic cooperation and to support the SNLD's policies on federalism. Nonetheless, the seat he was selected for within Shan State was one with a sizeable Kachin population.[1]The seat was ultimately held by Aik Mun from theTa'ang (Palaung) National Party,[10]who had also won the seat once before in2015;[11]Aik Mun won 49,221 votes (27.38%); Maw Htun Aung 46,169 (25.68%).[12]
That government was ousted three months later in the2021 Myanmar coup.Some of its members, theCommittee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw,formed theNational Unity Government of Myanmaron 16 April 2021.[13]Maw Htun Aung was appointed its deputy minister of electricity and energy on 26 July 2021.[14]A week into his appointment, he posted on social media, criticizing the military junta for trying to win international recognition and legitimacy: "Putting a sheep's skin on a wolf doesn't make the wolf less of a wolf".[15]
References[edit]
- ^ab"'We all have the same goal': SNLD candidate Maw Htun Awng talks federalism and the vote ".Frontier Myanmar.22 October 2020.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"A technocrat's dreams for Myanmar and its people".The Myanmar Times.15 September 2020.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^""စစ်ကောင်စီက စစ်သားတွေကို ဘာကြောင့် နုတ်ထွက်ခွင့် မပေးရဲရတာလဲ" ခေါင်းစဉ်ဖြင့် ဆွေးနွေး ပွဲ တိုက်ရိုက်ထုတ်လွှင့်မည် ".DVB Burmese.31 October 2021.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^abc"အရပ်ဘက်လှုပ်ရှားမှုမှသည် ရွေးကောက်ခံနိုင်ငံရေးဆီ ဦးတည်လာသူများ".Myanmar NOW(in Burmese).Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^abc"ပြည်ထောင်စုဒုဝန်ကြီး – လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန".Ministry of Electricity and Energy.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"ရှမ်းမြောက်မှာဝင်ပြိုင်မဲ့ ကချင်အမျိုးသား ဦးမော်ထွန်းအောင်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း".Frontier Myanmar(in Burmese). 23 October 2020.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"Analysis | In Myanmar, Concerns That China's Help on COVID-19 Comes With Strings Attached".The Irrawaddy.24 April 2020.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်မှ ထင်ရှားကျော်ကြားသည့် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်းများ၏ မဲရလာဒ်".Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"More activists and NGO workers are vying to be MPs - and shunning the NLD in favour of smaller parties".Myanmar NOW.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"2020 General Election Candidates".Union Election Commission.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"Shan Party Candidate Alleges Fraud in Myanmar's General Election".The Irrawaddy.24 December 2020.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"2020 General Election Results of Each Candidate".Union Election Commission.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"CRPH announces lineup of interim 'national unity government'".Myanmar Now.16 April 2021.Retrieved26 September2021.
- ^"လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန ဝန်ကြီးခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးအပ်ခြင်း - CRPH".crphmyanmar.org.26 July 2021.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"Myanmar shadow government condemns army ruler for taking PM role".Reuters.2 August 2021.Retrieved4 November2021.