Khun Bedu
Burmese democracy activist
Khun Bedu (born 1984) is an ethnically Karenni Burmese political activist who was imprisoned from 2008 to 2012 for organizing protests against the 2008 Constitutional Referendum. He is the leader of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force, an armed resistance/defence force and pro democracy group participating in the country's ongoing civil war. Khun Bedu is a devout Christian and believes in the fair treatment of enemies and encompasses his value system and beliefs to fight for freedom and justice for everyone regardless of ethnicity and faith. He was also democratically elected leader in the NUG. He draws inspiration from world leaders such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Golda Meir, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Lee Kuan Yew.
Involvement in protests
In 2004, Khun Bedu joined the human rights group Kayan New Generation Youth (KNGY). He was appointed the group's joint secretary on 12 August 2007. In this role, he led trainings on human rights issues, community organizing, constitutional issues, and election systems.
In 2008, the State Peace and Development Council, Burma's military government, announced a referendum for a new constitution which guaranteed that one quarter of all parliamentary seats would be reserved for military officers, that the Ministry of Home Affairs would fall exclusively under military control, and that Burmese citizens married to foreigners would be ineligible for office, apparently disqualifying leading opposition figure and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, called on eligible citizens to vote "no" in the referendum, and claimed their campaign was violently suppressed by government officials as a result.
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