Soe Myint is the founder of Mizzima, established in 1998 and specilizing in Burma/Myanmar Related News and Multimedia. He is Managing Director and Editor In-Chief of Mizzima Media. Soe was in exile for 24 years while Burma was under the military dictatorship. He was a student of international relations at Rangoon University at the time of the 1988 student demonstrations in Burma and participated in the 1988 people’s uprising for democracy. He went into exile in India after the military coup only returning to Burma in January 2012. He published a book “Burma File: A Question of Democracy” in 2003 in India.