Thet Win Aung
Student activist (1971-2006)
Thet Win Aung (သက်ဝင်းအောင် [θɛʔ wɪ́ɰ̃ àʊɰ̃]; 27 August 1971 – 16 October 2006) was a Burmese student activist, as well as a martyr and hero in the Burmese democracy movement.
He took part in the 1988 Movement as one of the leading members of his high school student union, Tamwe Township. 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.
In 1994, the military intelligence tried to arrest him again because he published the All Burma Federation of Student Unions pamphlets and organized student demonstrations to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of 7 July Protests. 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.
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