[1] In 1933, he joined the Dobama Asiayone, an indigenous anti-colonial organization where he earned the honorific "Thakin," (lit.
After passing the matriculation exam in 1934, he went on to the Rangoon Medical College (now UM-1 Yangon).
[1][2] In 1958, soon after Ne Win first declared emergency martial law, he was imprisoned in the Coco Islands for two years, under the Public Order Protection Act, for his leftist political activism.
[3] Ohn Myint is widely considered to have influenced Aung San Suu Kyi, and the two had a close friendship.
[3] In 1989, he was arrested for another 5 years and once again in 1998 for allowing himself to be interviewed by researcher Aung Htun, who was writing a book on the history of Burma's student movement.