Written by Admin on August 14, 2013. Posted in News, Top Stories
Maung Wuntha is the veteran newspaperman adored by virtually all working journalists in Myanmar, but he didn't endure a condemn by the country's—perhaps the world's—notorious dictator Ne Win. His chance for promotion—which he would surely be awarded for his performance—was snatched under his very nose. For god's sake, he could manage to escape from the military strong man's stretching arms.
It would be quite a laughable joke that he was dismissed by the dictator for the post of deputy chief editor of a daily nationalized by Ne Win's Socialist Lansin Party for a mistake in weather report. Yet it happened to the country's journalism guru-then.
He led a three-day boycott of the newspaper in 1988 popular uprisings.
The author of an acclaimed autobiography "I come from Waw" which offers a glimpse into the struggle against the dictatorship died of lung cancer at Victoria Hospital in Yangon Sunday.
The journalist-turn politician won the 1990 parliament election as a candidate of the National League for Democracy, the party led by Nobel laureate democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, from his native lower Myanmar town Waw which he never had a chance to represent as the military junta wrote off the elections.
He graduated from Yangon University, one of then most prestigious universities in Asia, specializing in arts, in 1967. He started his journalism career as a volunteer for Working People's Daily since his later campus days.
He studied in US Michigan University under Professional Journalism Fellowship for one year and visited US about 33 years later under Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship.
He was born in a small village on April 17, 1945, and imprisoned four times.
He was serving as the chairman of Myanmar Journalists Association till his death.
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Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2013/08/15/maung-wuntha-returns/
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