Four Years On, No Answers Over Murder of Critic of Myanmar’s Military
Four Years On, No Answers Over Murder of Critic of Myanmar’s Military
A mourner with U Ko Ni’s portrait at his funeral on January 30, 2017, in Yangon. / The Irrawaddy
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By San Yamin Aung 29 January 2021
YANGON Four years ago today, Myanmar lost one of its leading reformers U Ko Ni – a longtime critic of the military’s role in politics in a fatal shooting. The truth about his murder has still not come out.
The respected Muslim lawyer was assassinated in a plot involving ex-military officers in daylight outside Yangon International Airport on Jan. 29, 2017, as he returned from an overseas trip. U Ko Ni was the National League for Democracy’s (NLD) legal adviser and an aide to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.