Saw Ba Hla Thein

In this Burmese name, U is an honorific, not a given name.
In this Burmese name, the given name is Saw Ba Hla Thein. There is no family name.
Saw Ba Hla Thein
စောဘလှသိန်း
National Unity Government (NUG) representative to Japan
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2022
Personal details
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Myanmar
ResidenceJapan

U Saw Ba Hla Thein (Burmese: ဦးစောဘလှသိန်း; born 1969) is a Burmese human rights activist living in Japan. He moved to Japan in October 1992 and was recognized as a refugee in 2006.[1] Since 1 February 2022, he has been the pro-democracy National Unity Government (NUG) representative to Japan.

Early life

Saw Ba Hla Thein was born in 1969. He is an ethnic Karen and he is involved in protecting the rights of the Karen people.[2]

Representative of the National Unity Government (NUG) in Japan

On February 1, 2022, Saw Ba Hla Thein was appointed as the first representative of the NUG to Japan.[3][4][5]

On September 9, pro-democracy Burmese residents in Japan led by Saw Ba Hla Thein visited the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and addressed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi. They submitted a request to not let the Burmese military government attend the scheduled funeral of the late Shinzo Abe.[6] On September 22, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the planned attendees for the state funeral, and it became clear that the self-proclaimed head of state and self-proclaimed ministers of the military government would not be attending, as requested.[7][8] No NUG representatives, including the representative office of the National Unity Government (NUG) in Japan, also attended the funeral.[9]

References

  1. ^ "外務省: シンポジウム「日本における庇護：難民の保護、支援、定住をめぐって」（概要)". www.mofa.go.jp.
  2. ^ "「第 41 回日本定住難民とのつどい」の開催 – 公益財団法人 アジア福祉教育財団". www.fweap.or.jp.
  3. ^ "国民統一政府（NUG）、日本代表部の設置を発表". MYANMAR JAPON（ミャンマージャポン）.
  4. ^ "挙国一致政府、日本代表部の設置発表 - NNA ASIA・ミャンマー・政治". www.nna.jp.
  5. ^ ""Can it be said that Japan exercises the fence-sitting policy? I think it may be the Japanese government's policy. In my view, Japan may give favour to the side which gets the upper hand." Saw Ba Hla Thein the NUG's representative to Japan". Myanmar Peace Monitor. 8 February 2022. Archived from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  6. ^ "安倍晋三元首相の国葬に「軍政側は出席させないで」 ミャンマー民主派が外務省に要請書: 東京新聞". TOKYO Web.
  7. ^ "故安倍晋三国葬儀への各国・地域・国際機関等からの参列". Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  8. ^ "「故安倍晋三国葬儀への参列：各国・地域・国際機関等の名称及び代表者名」" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  9. ^ "ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟောင်း မစ္စတာရှင်ဇိုအာဘေး၏ နိုင်ငံတော်ဈာပနအခမ်းအနားသို့ ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ မြန်မာသံအမတ်ကြီး ပါဝင်တက်ရောက် (၂၇-၉-၂၀၂၂ ရက်)". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Burmese).