DVB founder Sein Win passes away in US; Myanmar military appoints 110 out of total 166 soldiers to legislature

DVB founder Sein Win passes away at age 83 in US

The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) extended its deepest condolences to the family of Sein Win, 83, a DVB co-founder and a cousin of jailed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, following a Buddhist ceremony after his death in the U.S. state of Maryland on Friday.

“He worked his whole life for his country,” Moe Zaw Oo, an advisor to the National Unity Government (NUG) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told DVB. Sein Win served as chairperson of the board at DVB since its founding in Oslo, Norway on July 19, 1992 up until 2012. Yin Aye, a Burmese pro-democracy activist in the U.S., told DVB that he first met Sein Win during a visit to the U.N. headquarters in New York City in 1993.

He was the son of Ba Win, one of the nine martyrs assassinated alongside Burma’s independence leader Aung San on July 19, 1947 – just months before independence in Burma was achieved in 1948. Sein Win was a first cousin to National League for Democracy (NLD) party co-founder Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held in detention since the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021. He is survived by his wife and two children. Read more