[3][4][5] Win Maw Oo, the eldest of six siblings, was born on 19 November 1971 in Kyimyindaing Township, Yangon.

[6] Against her parents' wishes, she marched with her classmates on 19 September 1988, carrying a picture of Independent hero Bogyoke Aung San.

[7] She was shot by soldiers as part of the Myanmar military's crackdown on the protests, receiving two bullets in her legs and one in her chest.

[8][9] An image of Win Maw Oo's bloodied body being carried by two medical students became an emblem for the opposition against Myanmar's brutal military regime.

[8] 28 years later, in May 2016, one month after the democratically elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi came to power, her family held the last Buddhist funerary rites of Win Maw Oo.