Thein Pe Myint

Burmese journalist

Thein Pe Myint (Burmese: ???????????? [?é??~ p?è mj???~]; also Thakin Thein Pe (???? ??????? [??k??`?~ ?é??~ p?è]); 10 July 1914 – 15 January 1978) was a Burmese politician, writer and journalist.

A writer of several politically and socially prominent books and the founder of an influential newspaper The Botataung, Thein Pe Myint was a leading Marxist intellectual and was an important player in the Burmese independence movement and postwar politics.