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<font size=7><b>Activist dies<br>
</font><font size=5>U</font></b><font size=3> Tin Maung Win, a prominent
Burmese political activist and journalist, died yesterday of a heart
attack at Synphaet hospital.<br>
Tin Maung Win, 62, was editor and publisher of the New Era Journal, the
only democratic tabloid newspaper published in liberated areas of
Burma.<br>
A senior member of the Parliamentary Democracy Party formed by U Nu after
the 1962 military takeover, Tin Maung Win was a founder of the Committee
for the Restoration of Democracy in Burma and vice-chairman of the
Democracy Alliance of Burma.<br>
He is survived by his wife Daw Khin Myo Aye, daughter Ma Thuza and two
grandchildren.<br>
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BKK Post<br>
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