Kyaw Zaw, Burmese commander and politician (born 1919)

Kyaw Zaw

Burmese political and military leader (1919–2012)

Kyaw Zaw was one of the founders of the Tatmadaw and a member of the Thirty Comrades who trained in Japan in the struggle for independence from Britain. He was also one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Burma, and had lived in exile in Yunnan Province, China, since 1989…