Word: thet
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...DIED. Thet Win Aung, 34, Burmese activist sentenced to 59 years in jail in 1998 for organizing protests demanding education reform; of unconfirmed causes; in Mandalay. While officials for Burma's military dictatorship said that Thet Win Aung had died of heart failure, human-rights groups alleged that his health had deteriorated as a result of torture and neglect, and demanded an independent investigation into his death...
...symbol of hope. In the markets, tea shops and offices of the crumbling capital, Rangoon, the whispered conversations about politics now contain wisps of optimism rarely heard after four decades of military rule. "We believe she can help get the country out of this mess," says tour guide Thet Aung...