![]() He was one of the founding members of Generation Wave, who used graffiti to spread anti-government messages during the Saffron Revolution in 2007. Zeya Thaw became known as an activist for his work with HIV-positive orphans and soon got into politics. The band attacked the military regime in charge at that time and talked about the hardships that the Burmese people living in poverty faced. ![]() ![]() Many people in the music industry thought it would flop, but it went straight to number one and remained at the top of the charts for more than two months. In 2000, when Myanmar was called Burma, Zeya Thaw’s band released the first Burmese Hip Hop album, Beginning. Phyo Zeya Thaw, a former rapper and pro-democracy activist, is one of the people that is set to be executed soon. In the two and a half years since, the military has killed nearly 2,000 people, arrested 14,000, and sentenced 114 to death. The military disputed the results and forcibly put the country’s power into a junta by arresting leaders of the NLD, including Aung San Suu Kyi, and fighting a war with its citizens. In Myanmar’s 2020 general election, the National League for Democracy won in a landslide victory.
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