[1] He joined the National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, in 1988 and won a seat in the Hluttaw from Bahan Township in the 1990 general election.
Kyi Maung was born on 20 December 1920 to Ngwe Khin and her husband Po Thein[2][3] in Rangoon (now Yangon), British Burma to a family of Teochew-Burmese heritage.
He nearly died after he was severely beaten in his head by the police on 20 December 1938, which is now commemorated as Bo Aung Kyaw Day in Myanmar.
[1] Kyi Maung was a final year student in 1941 when he left university to join the Burma Independence Army to fight the British colonial government.
[1] Col. Kyi Maung was one of the 18 senior officers that seized power from the democratically elected government of U Nu in 1962.
After being released from his seven years of confinement, he was selected to be part of the Executive Committee of the political party, National League for Democracy (NLD), which was led by Aung San Suu Kyi until her house arrest in July 1989, after which Kyi Maung became its leader.