Prince Hso Khan Pha of Yawnghwe (, aka Tiger; 15 April 1938 – 4 October 2016) was a prince of Yawnghwe. He was a son of Sao Shwe Thaik, the Saopha of Yawnghwe and Sao Nang Hearn Kham, the Mahadevi (consort). He was a consulting geologist based in Canada. Education His education was first started at a local school in Yawnghwe (Nyaung Shwe) at convents run by Roman Catholic Church nuns at Kalaw and Hsenwi (Theinni) in the Shan State, later in 1949 attended The Doon School at Dehra Dun (Dehradun) in India, graduating in 1954; studied for two years at Rangoon University; attended the Bell School of Languages at Cambridge, England, and the Cambridgeshire Technical College; graduated in 1964 from the University of Keele, England, with a BA (Hons) in Geology and Political Institutions. Life His mother fled with her family to Thailand in October 1963 after Sao Shwe Thaik had been deposed and died in prison in November 1962. Upon crossing the Thai border, the Provincial governor called on the Mahadevi with a message of protection from the king. During her time in Thailand she organized and founded the Shan State War Council (SSWC) and Shan State Army (of resistance to Ne Win’s dictatorship) in 1964. She became its leader and commander-in-chief and her second son Chao Tzang served as her right-hand man. At the time of his father’s death, he was studying in England. While in exile he participated in the independence struggle of the Shan State. Hso Khan Pha was politically active in many groups, pressuring the government of Burma. He also worked with Shan exiles abroad to help provide schooling for displaced Shan children whose parents were unable to send them to school. He tried to make the Shan State an independent country. The case has been presented to many heads of state in western countries as well as to the United Nations. He was proclaimed Head of State and President of the Federated Shan States, declared Shan State independence, by Shan State exiles and sympathizers in 2005. Hso Khan Pha worked with exiled Prince Shwebomin of Burma to promote the protection of the Shan People's religious, traditional, culture, and indigenous land rights in Burma. In 2007, he attended an international peace conference in Los Angeles to speak out against the government of Burma. Upon graduating he was hired as a geologist in England, and