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249:. Although he escaped, his home was searched frequently and his family was harassed incessantly while he was on his run. There is no evidence that he took part in the 1996 student demonstrations from behind the scenes nor that he helped organized the student protests against the poor quality of education and students' rights in 1998, yet the military accused him of this. Thet Win Aung was in hiding for a long period after the 1988 demonstrations, but he managed to migrate into Thailand, where he lived for a period of time. He was persuaded, however, to return to Burma. He was arrested in October 1998, brutally tortured, and eventually sentenced to 59 years in prison. At first, he was detained in Kalay Prison, 257:
Pyone Cho, who was also a prisoner of conscience. Thet Win Aung died in Mandalay prison on 16 October 2006 due to inhumane treatment and long-term injuries he sustained from torture during interrogations with military intelligence. The prison authorities would not allow for an autopsy and insisted that he died for malaria, rather than torture, although many fellow prisoners could testify the extent to which Thet Win Aung was tortured and abused in the interrogation centers and prisons.
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Whilst in prison, he and his fellow prisoners of conscience were subjected to inhumane torture and withheld proper medical treatment. By placing him in Mandalay Prison, he was kept as far away from his family as possible. His father never missed a prison visit for either Thet Win Aung or his brother,
234:. In 1989, he was elected vice general secretary of the Basic Education Student Union (BESU). He was dismissed from his school for his political involvement in student demonstrations, later jailed for 9 months for aiding in forming the Student Union. 408: 275:(also known as Htay Win Aung), is also an internationally recognized human rights activist and was one of the main student leaders of the 1988 Uprising. Like Thet Win Aung, 413: 433: 428: 242: 108: 246: 238: 139: 403: 319: 46: 42: 89: 61: 423: 418: 68: 75: 35: 57: 265: 398: 393: 279:
spent his entire adult life advocating for democracy, spending 20 years as a prisoner of conscience.
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pamphlets and organized student demonstrations to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of
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student activist, as wel as a martyr and hero in the Burmese democracy movement.
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as one of the leading members of his high school student union,
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Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Myanmar
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Thet Win Aung was elected Honorary Vice-President of the
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Myanmar
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Burmese
1988 Movement
Tamwe Township
military intelligence
All Burma Federation of Student Unions
7 July Protests
Sagaing Division
Reading University
Amnesty International
Pyone Cho
Pyone Cho
"Burma – Death in Custody of Pro-Democracy Activist Thet Win Aung"
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