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Wai Hun Aung | |
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ဝေဟင်အောင် | |
 Aung during an interview with Myanmar Now News after the military bombed a market area in Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State | |
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| Born | Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State Myanmar. |
| Occupation | Activist and Charity leader |
Wai Hun Aung (Burmese: ဝေဟင်အောင်) is an Arakanese writer, politician, and charity leader from Rakhine State, Myanmar. He works as a senior official for rescue operations in Rakhine where his reporting and updates have been referenced by various media outlets in their reporting on events in Arakan Army territorties.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]He is born Aung Kyaw Win in Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State.[3]
Activism
[edit]In January 2018, Wai Hun Aung and another Rakhine politician Dr. Aye Maung were detained over remarks they made earlier that month during an event in Rathedaung Township on the 233rd anniversary of the fall of the Arakan kingdom to the Burmese in 1785.[4] It is reported that he spoke about the need for a revolution to restore Rakhine sovereignty.[5]
In 2019 he was sentenced for 20 years in prison for high treason and two more years for sedition cases.[6][7] Later, he was released in February 2021 as part of junta's Union Day mass amnesty.[8][9]
In May 2023, the Myanmar military government arrested Wai Hun Aung, including his daughter when they were traveling from Sittwe to Ponnagyun Township to deliver humanitarian aid to communities affected by the Cyclone Mocha.[10][11] He was detained for suspected of carrying illegal items in charity car. A day later after arrest he was released after no solid proof of suspicion was found.[12]
During an interview with the BBC in 2026, Wai Hun Aung stated the Kaladan project is strategically important for India due to the Sittwe port's role in regional trade, adding that military operations by Arakan Army are carried out through planned phases of attack, capture, and control.[13]
On 8 June 2026, his home in Sittwe was sealed by the Rakhine State Government police claiming allegations of links to the AA.[14][15]
Philanthropy
[edit]He has a charity group run by his own name as the "Wai Hun Aung Charity Group". The organization works on providing necessary assistance to displaced people in Rakhine State.[16] In July 2025, his organization has provided approximately 500 million kyats to over 4,000 displaced people in Ann and Mrauk-U townships.[17] After the 2025 Mrauk U hospital bombing, the group has donated 4.1 billion kyats to the victims and damaged hospital.[18]
Personal life
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "An airstrike on a hospital in a rebel-controlled area of Myanmar kills 34 and injures 80". thecanadianpressnews.ca. 2025-12-11. Retrieved 2026-05-22.
- ↑ "Home of prominent aid worker sealed by authorities in Rakhine State". DVB. 2026-06-09. Retrieved 2026-06-09.
- ↑ "Wai Hun Aung Political Prisoner Profile" (PDF). Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. 2019-05-03. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-07-28. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
- 1 2 "ဒေါက်တာ အေးမောင်နဲ့ စာရေးဆရာ ဝေဟင်အောင် အမှု ပယ်ချခံရပြန်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 2019-08-26. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ "ရခိုင် စာရေးဆရာ ဝေဟင်အောင်ကို ပုဒ်မ ၂ ခုနဲ့ အမှုဖွင့်". မြန်မာဌာန (in Burmese). 2018-01-17. Archived from the original on 2025-06-07. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ ကျော်လင်း. "ဒေါက်တာအေးမောင်၊ ဝေဟင်အောင်တို့ကို ထောင် ၂၂ နှစ်စီ ချ". Myanmar Now. Archived from the original on 2026-01-27. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ "Dr. Aye Maung and Wai Hun Aung ordered 20 years imprisonment". Development Media Group. Archived from the original on 2021-02-15. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ "Dr. Aye Maung, writer Wai Hun Aung walk free as part of junta's Union Day mass amnesty". Burma News International. Archived from the original on 2021-08-14. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ "Freed in recent amnesty, writer Wai Hun Aung speaks out". Development Media Group. Archived from the original on 2026-05-19. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- 1 2 ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန) (2023-05-24). "ရခိုင်မုန်တိုင်းဘေး ကူညီသူ စာရေးဆရာ ဝေဟင်အောင် ဖမ်းဆီးခံရ". ဗွီအိုအေ (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 2025-10-13. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ "Myanmar Junta Detains Charity Leader Involved in Cyclone Relief Efforts in Rakhine". The Irrawaddy. 2023-05-24. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ "Well-known writer Wai Hin Aung and his colleagues released a day after arrest". www.narinjara.com. Archived from the original on 2026-01-15. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ "စစ်တွေ - စစ်တပ်ရဲ့ ရခိုင်ပြည်နောက်ဆုံးခံတပ်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 2026-03-07. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ "စစ်တွေမြို့ရှိ လူမှုရေးသမား ကိုဝေဟင်အောင်၏ နေအိမ်ကို ပြည်နယ်အစိုးရ ချိတ်ပိတ်". burmese.narinjara.com (in Burmese). Retrieved 2026-06-09.
- ↑ "ရခိုင်စစ်ဘေးရှောင်ပြည်သူများကို ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်ပေးနေသည့် စာရေးဆရာ ဝေဟင်အောင်၏ စစ်တွေမြို့ နေအိမ်ကို အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်က ချိတ်ပိတ်". Khit Thit Media. 2026-06-09. Retrieved 2026-06-10.
- ↑ "ဝေဟင်အောင်ပရဟိတအဖွဲ့ ကယ်ဆယ်ရေးယာဉ်တန်း ကျောက်ဖြူတွင် ပစ်ခတ်ခံရ". Western News. 2026-01-08. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ "အမ်းနှင့် မြောက်ဦးမြို့နယ်တို့ရှိ စစ်ဘေးရှောင် ၄ဝဝဝ ကျော်အတွက် ဝေဟင်အောင်ပရဟိတအဖွဲ့က ကျပ်သိန်း ၅၀၀ ခန့်ထောက်ပံ့". burmese.narinjara.com (in Burmese). Retrieved 2026-05-18.
- ↑ "မြောက်ဦးဆေးရုံဗုံးကြဲခံရမှုအတွက် ဝေဟင်အောင်ပရဟိတအဖွဲ့က ကျပ်သိန်း ၄ဝဝဝ ကျော်လှူဒါန်း". burmese.narinjara.com (in Burmese). Retrieved 2026-05-18.