Shwe Lu Maung

My website is http://www.shwelumaung.org and I blog with videos on Myanmar and US affairs. You can view my videos at youtube. Search for Shwe Lu Maung at Youtube or google.

I am a biologcal scientist and Darwinist. In 1963, I read Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species and became a Zoology Honours student at Rangoon University. I used to walk along the Chancellor Road carrying the book and declaring, "I am a Homo sapiens, we're all Homo sapiens". After 1962 coup d'état by General Ne Win and his colonels I became a rebel. Now, I believe that over population is the main cause of the economic woes we are facing.

As a Rangoon University student my ambition was to become a member of parliament. Opposing the military government I joined a democratic national guerrilla force but left the left the jungle a year later to become a demonstrator (junior faculty) at Rangoon University. I won a Colombo Plan Fellowship and finished in 1976 my doctorate degree in reproductive endocrinology from the University of Wales,(University College of North Wales), Bangor, United Kingdom.

Unhappy with the high-handedness of the military junta I left Myanmar (Burma) in 1977. I worked for the advancement of science in my capacity of the Chief Scientific Officer at the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endorinology, and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM) from 1978 to 1991. I have visited and worked in twelve countries in four continents as a research scientist. I did a post-doctoral research in USA from 1982-85.

I got back into Myanmar politics during the 1988 uprising and I lost my scientific career. I came back to the United States to get back my scientific career in 1994. I specialize in DNA technology and gene-search. That means I am a gene-hunter, search for the causative genes that are responsible for the hereditary genetic diseases. I have about 60 scientific publications and two books and 20 articles on politics. Now I am retired and plan to write more books.

I am a descendant of the ancient Rakkhapura Kingdom which is now 75% in Myanmar, 15% inside Bangladesh and 10% inside India. I am happily married to my graduate classmate and have two children- a daughter and a son.