Maung Saungkha
Maung Saungkha, alternatively romanized as Maung Saung Kha, is a Burmese poet, human rights activist and commander of the Bamar People's Liberation Army. Career. In 2012, Maung Saungkha joined the National League for Democracy as a youth working group representative. In 2016 he was sentenced to six months in prison for publishing "a poem about having a tattoo of a president on his penis." On 15 January 2018 Maung Saungkha founded "Athan" ('voice'), an activist organisation to "promote freedom of expression and freedom of the press in Myanmar." In December 2018, this organisation received an award from  the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for their contribution to "the promotion of freedom of expression in Myanmar." He also resigned from the National League for Democracy citing disagreement with Aung San Suu Kyi about the government's actions on protecting the freedom of press and treatment of minorities. He became a leader of the 2021–2022 Myanmar protests. On 17 April 2022, he co-founded the Bamar People's Liberation Army, an ethnic armed organisation that strives for ethnic federalism in Myanmar, in which he serves as a commander.