Naing Ngan Lin
{{Short description|Burmese politician}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2020}}
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|constituency = Dekkhinathiri Township
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Naing Ngan Lin ({{langx|my|နိုင်ငံလင်း}}, born September 3, 1977) is a Burmese politician and former political prisoner who currently serves as a regional minister for social affairs and a Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Dekkhinathiri Township.
He is a member of the National League for Democracy.{{cite web|url=https://pyithu.hluttaw.mm/node/1454|title=MP Profile|publisher=Pyithu Hluttaw}}{{cite web|url=https://burmese.voanews.com/a/3036405.html|title=ဦးႏိုင္ငံလင္း မဲဆြယ္စည္း႐ံုးမႈေတြ ျပန္စ}}{{cite web|url=https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/131676.html|title=လူကုန်ကူးခံခဲ့ရသည့် တက္ကသိုလ်ကျောင်းသားအား လူမှုရေးဝန်ကြီးက ထောက်ပံ့ငွေပေးအပ်}}{{cite web|url=https://myanmar.gov.mm/yangon-division-government|title=Yangon Region Hluttaw}}{{cite web|url=http://mizzima.com/article/nld-must-win-2020-general-elections-continue-future-aspirations-mp|title=NLD must win 2020 general elections to continue future aspirations - MP|publisher= Mizzima News}}
Biography
Naing Ngan Lin was born on September 3, 1977, in Thaton Township, Mon State to Aye Myint and Phyu. He moved to Yangon when he was about three years old.
In 2006, he graduated in politics and government from Open University. After graduation, he married his life partner, Sandar Win. He lives in Yangon with his wife, their son and his parents-in-law. He became involved in politics during the Saffron Revolution of 2007. In 2009, he was arrested and spent two months in prison.{{cite book |last1=Schrank |first1=Delphine |title=The Rebel of Rangoon; A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma |date=2015 |publisher=Nation Books |isbn=978-1-56858-498-0 |pages=Chapter 2 |url=https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781568584980%7D |access-date=17 February 2021}} After he was released, he set up the United Front of Burmese Activists for Democracy.
After Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, she called on him to work with the NLD in 2010. He founded the Togetherness Free Education Network for Youth and, later, the Health Network with her guidance.
Political career
Naing Ngan Lin is a member of the National League for Democracy. In 2012, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the NLD.{{cite book |last1=Schrank |first1=Delphine |title=The Rebel of Rangoon; A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma |date=2015 |publisher=Nation Books |isbn=978-1-56858-498-0 |pages=Chapter 8 |url=https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781568584980%7D |access-date=17 February 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Schrank |first1=Delphine |title=Testing Myanmar's Political Dispensation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/opinion/testing-myanmars-political-dispensation.html |access-date=17 February 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=March 29, 2012}} From then until the 2015 Myanmar general election, he was appointed to the national parliament in Naypyitaw. He tried to help his constituency people's problems.
In 2015, He stood for the Yangon regional parliament with his colleagues Phyo Min Thein and Sandar Min. All three of them were elected. He was elected as an Pyithu Hluttaw MP and elected representative from Dekkhinathiri Township parliamentary constituency at the 2015 Myanmar general election. He also serving as a Regional minister for social affairs for Yangon Region.{{cite web|url=http://mizzimaburmese.com/tags/uuniungngnlng|title=ဦးနိုင်ငံလင်း}}{{cite web|url=https://pyithu.hluttaw.mm/node/6998|title=ဦးနိုင်ငံလင်း (ဒဏ္ခိဏသီရိ မဲဆန္ဒနယ်) မှ ဆွေးနွေးခြင်းး}}
In the wake of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état on 1 February, he was detained by the Myanmar Armed Forces.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=4 February 2021|title=Recent Arrest List|url=https://aappb.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Recent-Arrest-List-Last-Updated-on-Feb-4.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Assistance Association for Political Prisoners}}
Sword attack
During the campaign for Pyithu Hluttaw representative Wai Phyo Aung, six NLD members – including Naing Ngan Lin – were attacked by six assailants wielding swords at Manpyae Quarter in Thaketa on 29 October 2019. He suffered severe wounds and was hospitalized at Yangon General Hospital.{{cite web|url=https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/news/nld-mp-naing-ngan-lin-badly-injured-sword-attack|title=NLD MP Naing Ngan Lin badly injured in sword attack}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/burma/2015/10/151029_nld_naingnganlin_attacked|title=အန်အဲလ်ဒီ ကိုယ်စားလှယ် ဦးနိုင်ငံလင်း ဓားခုတ်ခံရ}}{{cite web|url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2016/09/08/123557.html|title=ဦးနိုင်ငံလင်းကို ဓားဖြင့်ခုတ်ခဲ့သူများ အလုပ်ကြမ်းနှင့် ထောင်ဒဏ်ကၾ}}
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