Maw-Naing, Tinsa

Tinsa Maw-Naing was born in Rangoon (Yangon) in 1927. The eldest daughter of Daw Kinmama Maw and Dr. Ba Maw, the former Prime Minister, she married Bo Yan Naing of the famed Thirty Comrades in 1944. She was a lecturer at the University of Medicine in Rangoon before she was imprisoned from 1966 to 1968, and again from 1974 to 1976. Tinsa passed away in 2014 before the publication of this book. Y.M.V. Han is the granddaughter of Tinsa Maw-Naing and Bo Yan Naing, and great-granddaughter of Dr. Ba Maw.