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Sao Kya Seng
Sao Kya Seng was the last saopha of Hsipaw, a Shan state in Burma, educated as a mining engineer in the United States, where he met his Austrian wife Inge Sargent. He introduced land reforms and sat in the Burmese parliament. He was arrested during General Ne Win's military coup of March 1962 and disappeared; his wife later told his story in the memoir Twilight over Burma.
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