BANGKOK -- The death from old age on June 1 of Tin Oo, Myanmar's most respected soldier and politician, was so widely mourned that even Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing was reported to have sent a wreath. The incumbent military regime chief visited his former commander in December 2021 with an offer of superior military hospital care that was firmly declined.
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Myanmar's Thura Tin Oo, an officer and a gentleman from another age
The last in a line of former military officers who tried but failed to bring change
NLD co-founder Tin Oo shortly after the bloody military takeover by the State Law and Order and Restoration Council on Sept. 18, 1988. "Our lives are wrapped in leaf," he told a correspondent at the time. (Photo by Dominic Faulder)
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