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Win Min Thein was Yangon Airport security chief when U Ko Ni was assassinated. He is not only a member of the coup leader’s inner circle, but classmate of the culprits.
Almost all of the high-profile cases since independence have involved persecution by the military, or the trial of someone trying to kill a military dictator.
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 4.6k 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 ou...
Myanmar Court Jails Three for Incitement Over Show of Support for NLD Lawyer’s Killer 10 December 2020 7 December 2020 One of the nationalists at the court hearing in 2018. / Myo Min Soe / The Irrawaddy 2.8k By Htun Htun 16 December 2020 YANGON—A court in Yangon’s Insein Township has sentenced three supporters of the convicted assassin of a National League for Democracy (NLD) legal adviser to one year in prison with hard labor. The three were among four nationalists who appeared at Yangon’s Northern District Court in February 2018 wearing T-shirts reading “Eat Well!” to show the...