Thursday, 08 September 2011 21:09 Myo Thein
(Mizzima) – Historian and writer Than Myint Oo, the author of “The River of Lost Footsteps,” and National League for Democracy (NLD) General-Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi met at NLD headquarters in Rangoon on Thursday
Than Myint Oo, a U.S. citizen who is the grandson of the late U Thant, a former secretary-general of the United Nations, requested to meet with Suu Kyi.
“He came to Rangoon for another affair, and he asked to meet her,” NLD spokesman Ohn Kyaing told Mizzima. “They met at 10:30 a.m., and the meeting lasted about thirty minutes.” No details of the meeting were disclosed.
Than Myint Oo is in Burma to attend a meeting of the Department for International Development which will be held at the British embassy in Rangoon.
Than Myint Oo received a Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University. “The River of Lost Footsteps” (in English) is a well-known cultural and political history of Burma.
Nevertheless, his book raised wide criticism among the Burmese opposition movement because it suggested that gradual change is inevitable as the country attempts to end its isolation, to promote trade, develop civil society and adopt systematic structural reform in the government.
(Mizzima) – Historian and writer Than Myint Oo, the author of “The River of Lost Footsteps,” and National League for Democracy (NLD) General-Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi met at NLD headquarters in Rangoon on Thursday
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| Than Myint Oo, the author of “The River of Lost Footsteps,” is the grandson of the late U Thant, a former secretary-general of the United Nations. |
“He came to Rangoon for another affair, and he asked to meet her,” NLD spokesman Ohn Kyaing told Mizzima. “They met at 10:30 a.m., and the meeting lasted about thirty minutes.” No details of the meeting were disclosed.
Than Myint Oo is in Burma to attend a meeting of the Department for International Development which will be held at the British embassy in Rangoon.
Than Myint Oo received a Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University. “The River of Lost Footsteps” (in English) is a well-known cultural and political history of Burma.
Nevertheless, his book raised wide criticism among the Burmese opposition movement because it suggested that gradual change is inevitable as the country attempts to end its isolation, to promote trade, develop civil society and adopt systematic structural reform in the government.
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