Kyaw Zaw Oo

Kyaw Zaw Oo (Burmese: ကျော်ဇောဦး) is an Arakanese politician, who used to serve as a member of parliament in the Rakhine State Hluttaw for (2015-2020) tenure. He was elected MP as an independent candidate in Sittwe-2 constituency in 2015. He is now leading the Arakan Front Party as its vice chair.[1][2][3][4]

Kyaw Zaw Oo
ကျော်ဇောဦး
Member of the Rakhine State Hluttaw
for Sittwe Township-2
In office
1 February 2015 – 31 January 2021
ConstituencySittwe Township-2
Member of the Rakhine State Hluttaw
In office
1 February 2015 – 31 January 2021
Personal details
Born (1972-10-01) 1 October 1972
NationalityBurmese
Political partyArakan Front Party (2017–present)
Independent (2017)
Arakan National Party (2014–17)
Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (2010–14)
Alma materGovernment Technical Institute (Pyay)
OccupationPolitician
Websitehttps://kzo.home.blog/

Political career

In the 2015 Myanmar general election, as he was elected for the Rakhine State Hluttaw, his father, Wai Sein Aung, was elected as an Amyotha Hluttaw MP from Rakhine State No. 1 parliamentary constituency (i.e. Sittwe township).[5]

Kyaw Zaw Oo proposed, in 2016 December, a motion to the Rakhine state parliament that the local parliament should not recognise the existence or the findings of the (Kofi Annan-led) Advisory Commission on Rakhine State (Burmese: ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ဆိုင်ရာ အကြံပေးကော်မရှင်), which was formed by central Myanmar government, the parliament approved it after discussion.[6][7]

He submitted his resignation from the Arakan National Party on 4 December 2017, a week after Dr Aye Maung's resignation.[8]

On 1982 Myanmar Citizenship Law

Kyaw Zaw Oo has been an advocate of 1982 Myanmar Citizenship Law, in which the citizenship is granted on the principle of jus sanguinis (Latin for “blood rights” or “law of the bloodline”). He wrote articles on this subject in national daily newspapers, and gave talks on it as well.[9][10][11][12]

Alerting about Kha Maung Seik massacre

Near the end of August 2017 in Kha Maung Seik (also known as Fakir Bazar) of Maungdaw Township, about a hundred Hindus men and women were massacred by ARSA. While that incident was buried in the fog caused by the then ARSA violences, Kyaw Zaw Oo investigated it and posted a detailed account about it on Facebook on 13 September 2017, consequently, being the first in alerting the domestic and international communities about the incident.[13][14]

Open Letter to Min Aung Hlaing

On 17 March 2019, Kyaw Zaw Oo published a bi-lingual open letter to senior general Min Aung Hlaing (commander-in-chief of Myanmar Armed Forces) about many rights violations of Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) in Rakhine State, inflicting on lives and property of the civilians, damaging some buildings of cultural heritage as well.[15][16]

See also

References
  1. Long, Kayleigh (3 November 2015). "In Sittwe, an idependent candidate in name only tells of a split within his party". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. Mon, Kyaw Hsu (2 November 2015). "Arakan MP-elect: 'I will rejoin with like-minded people'". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  3. Naing, Kaung Hset (7 September 2020). "We are ready to govern our state". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  4. "AFP wins three parliamentary seats in Kyaukphyu". Eleven Media Group. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  5. "စစ်တွေမြို့နယ်မှာ သားဖနှစ်ဦး စလုံး ရွေးကောက်ပွဲအနိုင်ရ". RFA Burmese (in Burmese). 11 November 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  6. "Annan commission still infuriates Myanmar politicians". The Nation. 13 September 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  7. Myint, Yi Ywal (13 September 2016). "Rakhine hluttaw to debate state advisory commission". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  8. Aung, Wunna (4 December 2017). "ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် လွှတ်တော်အမတ်တစ်ဦး ANP ပါတီမှ ထပ်မံနုတ်ထွက်ပြန်". 7Day News (in Burmese). Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  9. Kyaw Zaw Oo (24 June 2016). "နိုင်ငံ၊ လူမျိုးနှင့် အချုပ်အခြာ အာဏာကို စောင့်ရှောက်သော ဥပဒေ (အပိုင်း ၁)". Wayback Machine. Eleven Daily_saved in Kyaw Zaw Oo's Blog. Archived from the original on 31 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  10. Kyaw Zaw Oo (25 June 2016). "နိုင်ငံ၊ လူမျိုးနှင့် အချုပ်အခြာ အာဏာကို စောင့်ရှောက်သော ဥပဒေ (အပိုင်း ၂)". Wayback Machine. Eleven Daily_saved in Kyaw Zaw Oo's Blog. Archived from the original on 31 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  11. Kyaw Zaw Oo (26 June 2016). "နိုင်ငံ၊ လူမျိုးနှင့် အချုပ်အခြာ အာဏာကို စောင့်ရှောက်သော ဥပဒေ (အပိုင်း ၃)". Wayback Machine. Eleven Daily_saved in Kyaw Zaw Oo's Blog. Archived from the original on 31 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  12. Kyaw Zaw Oo (24 July 2016). Talk on 1982 Myanmar Citizenship law by Kyaw Zaw Oo (2016-07-24) (mp4 video) (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 31 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  13. "ဘင်္ဂါလီလူအုပ်စုလက်ချက်ဖြင့် ဟိန္ဒူ ကိုးဆယ်ကျော် အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် အသတ်ခံရမှု ဆိုင်ရာ တင်ပြချက်". Kyaw Zaw Oo's Blog. 13 September 2017. Archived from the original on 4 January 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  15. Open Letter to Senior General Min Aung Hlaing from U Kyaw Zaw Oo about damage to cultural heritage, fatalities and casualties incurred by intentional and indiscriminate attacks of Myanma Tatmadaw on non-military targets. Kyaw Zaw Oo. 2019. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  16. သမိုင်းဝင် ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဆိုင်ရာအဆောက်အအုံများအပါအဝင် စစ်ဖက်ပစ်မှတ်မဟုတ်သည့်နေရာများသို့ တမင်သက်သက် ပစ်ခတ်ကြသဖြင့် သေဆုံးထိခိုက်ကြရသည့်ကိစ္စ အိတ်ဖွင့်ပေးစာ. Kyaw Zaw Oo. 2019. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

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