Mahkaw Hkun Sa was previously General Secretary of the Kachin National Congress for Democracy Party in Kachin State, which won three seats in the 1990 election. Subsequently, he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for his political activities, serving seven years as a political prisoner before his release. He was trained as a Lawyer in Burma/Myanmar and has gone on to specialise in constitutional law. He was elected as General Secretary of the Ethnic Nationalities Council and was Chair of the Kachin State Constitution Drafting Committee. He is presently a member of the Central Committee of the Kachin National Organistion and a member of the Constitutional Committee of the UNFC.
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