
“With hip-hop, we can express ourselves without fear,” he said in an interview in 2011 after being released from prison for the first time. Zeya Thaw, whose mother Daw Khin Win May confirmed his death, pioneered one of Myanmar’s first hip-hop groups, using music as a form of protest against the military dictatorship’s first round of rule in the early 2000’s. More from NextShark: BTS' J-Hope releases ‘More’ music video ahead of debut solo album ‘Jack in the Box’Īfter being detained, tried and convicted of at least 20 criminal offenses, Suu Kyi, 77, was moved into a solitary confinement prison earlier in June. 1, 2021, threw the country into another chapter of dictatorship rule.
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Zeya Thaw was a close ally of ousted former leader and Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. The global community jointly condemned the ruling military after it was announced on Monday that four men, all of whom were accused of aiding a civilian resistance movement, were executed. Rapper-turned-politician U Phyo Zeya Thaw, who also went by the stage name Nitric Acid was one of four democracy activists hanged by the Burmese junta on Saturday.
