Career
In this Burmese name, Nai is an honorific. As a youth activist at the Rangoon University, Shwe Kyin founded the civil rights group "Mon Freedom League" and was jailed when civil war broke out on the eve of Burmese independence in 1948. Upon his release two years later, Shwe Kyin joined in the armed revolutionary group known as the Mon People Front (MPF).
In defiance, Shwe Kyin refused to disarm and founded the New Mon State Party to continue an armed struggle.
This group gained favor among young Mon students and eventually replaced the MPF as the primary Mon armed resistance. Nai Shwe Kyin died in 2003.