U Kyaw Win<\/h2>\r\nProfessor Emeritus U Kyaw Win, (\u201cWIN\u201d) born 1934 in Burma, came to America in 1952 \u00a0after graduating from Woodstock School, in India\u2019s Himalayas. \u00a0He is a graduate of Arizona State University (BS), The American University (MA) and University of Southern California (MEd, PhD). \u00a0An early outspoken critic of the Burmese military regime, he published and edited The Burma Bulletin, 1973-1992, for which he was exiled by the regime for forty-eight years.\r\n\r\nHe retired in 1998 from Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California, after a 30-year teaching career (psychology) and\r\ncounseling. \u00a0His prior employment took him to the Indian and Indonesian embassies in Washington, DC; Kingswood School in Kalaw Burma; US Embassy in Rangoon, Burma and the US Army Language School (later Defense Language Institute) at the Presidio of Monterey in California. \u00a0He was special advisor to the cast and crew for the filming of the John Boorman motion picture \u201cBeyond Rangoon\u201d in Malaysia, 1993-94, and had two small cameos in it.\r\n\r\nU Kyaw Win is the author of \u00a0\u201cMy Conscience: An Exile\u2019s Memoir of Burma\u201d published by Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016. \u00a0In retirement, he continues to be engaged in Burmese affairs by speaking out against its military\u2019s persecution of Burma\u2019s ethnic Chin, Karen, Kachin, Mon, and Shan peoples and its genocidal campaigns against the Rohingyas, a downtrodden Islamic community who for many generations have lived in Burma\u2019s Northern Arakan, which borders Bangladesh. \u00a0\u00a0He is deeply involved with helping orphanages in India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, and Thailand, using his own resources and donations received from friends, to help refugees on the Burma-Thailand border with their medical care and survival needs.\r\n\r\nIn November 2017, he was invited by the Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abul Ali to visit a Rohingya Refugee Camp in Cox\u2019s Bazar. \u00a0He was also asked to speak at an international symposium ending genocide in Burma held at the University of Dhaka, 29 Nov 2017, at the Berlin Conference on Myanmar Genocide, 26 Feb 2018, and at the University of Colorado Boulder\u2019s \u00a070th Conference on World Affairs, 9-13 April 2018.\r\n\r\nHe is married to Indonesian-born Gandasari (PhD), for sixty years. \u00a0They are parents of two grown children and two grandchildren. \u00a0He and his wife live in Boulder County, Colorado.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
U Kyaw Win Professor Emeritus U Kyaw Win, (\u201cWIN\u201d) born 1934 in Burma, came to America in 1952 \u00a0after graduating from Woodstock School, in India\u2019s Himalayas. \u00a0He is a graduate <\/p>\n