Former BBC reporter Chris Gunness recalls U Nay Min, the fearless democracy activist who helped spark the 1988 uprising against a previous junta, at huge personal cost.
The UK-educated economist headed several ministries but fell out with the top generals over his efforts to open up the economy. He died Sunday at the age of 84.
U Chit Hlaing, the author of the ideology of the Burma Socialist Program Party, died of natural causes at the age of 92 in Yangon on Saturday.
Chinese Nobel laureate and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo died in custody at 61.
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