Bawk Ja Lum Nyoi (Burmese: ဘောက်ဂျာ, born 4 December 1967[1]) is an ethnic Kachin land rights activist and politician from Burma (Myanmar).
[1] In October 2010, she led a group of Hukawng Valley farmers whose lands had been confiscated (over 220,000 acres (890 km2) of farmland), and sued Yuzana Company and its chairman Htay Myint (MP), over the illegal land confiscations.
[4] The Union Election Commission (UEC) declared Ohn Myint the winner, despite fraud allegations and voting irregularities.
[1] In the 2012 Burmese by-elections, she announced her intent to contest the same seat (as Ohn Myint had vacated it to become a cabinet-level minister), but her constituency was among three withdrawn by the government following renewed fighting between the Burmese military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).
[7] In July 2013, she was arrested on politically motivated charges of negligent homicide of a man killed in 2008.