Mun Awng

Due to having participated in anti-government demonstrations in 1988, he was forced to leave Burma in February 1993, having previously lived in camps on Three Pagodas Pass on the Thai border with other students.

[1][3][5][6] Mun Awng returned to visit Burma in 2015 after initially having his visa denied by Burmese embassy officials in Bangkok.

This album, called Battle for Peace, was released from Thailand, and then smuggled into Burma on cassette tapes and played on Burmese-language radio stations broadcasting from abroad, as it was banned by the government.

Together with well-known musicians such as U2, Avril Lavigne and Talib Kweli, Mun Awng helped create the album which was dedicated to the then-arrested Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

Mun Awng performed the album's final track, "Tempest of Blood", which was co-written by Min Ko Naing whilst they were in hiding.