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Nay Tin Myint has lived in Elmhurst for two years after six months living in Mae Sot, Thailand. As a student leader for the National League for Democracy in the 80s, he was arrested and given a life sentence for speaking out on human rights and democracy. He served 15 years of this sentence, including 7 years of solitary, and was moved around to a total of 5 different prisons to prevent his discovery by human rights activists.

He and other student leaders were tortured, and many of his comrades committed suicide. Nay Tin Myint's faith helped him through this time; he meditated day and night until his release in 2005.

In 2007, before the Saffron Uprising, he took the bus out of Yangon, walked through the jungle, and emerged in Thailand. He lived in the NLD headquarters in Mae Sot until he was quickly resettled to the U.S. as a special case.

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