He was one of the most prominent student activists of post-independent Burma.
[2] In 1957, he established the Progressive Student Force along with fellow activists, a rival union of the government-backed Democratic Student Organization and also served as a leader for the Communist Party of Burma.
[2] He went on to join the civil service as a government high school teacher in the 1960s.
[2] Ba Kaung was also an editor of the semi-government-run Pyinnya Tansaung magazine in the 1990s.
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