According to news coming from Rangoon, the Myanmar military regime has been lately targetting its attacks in the government controlled media on U Win Tin.

U Win Tin until late last year was the longest serving political prisoner in Burma/Myanmar’s notorious prisons. His sentence was repeatedly lenghtened because he tried to send information to the United Nations investigators about inhumane ill-treatments on all prisoner, especially on political prisoners, in Burma’s jails.

Before he was imprisoned in 1990, U Win Tin was a loyal trusted right-hand man of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Noble Peace laureate and the leader of pro-democracy movements in Burma. U Win Tin is also one of the co-founders of the National League for Democracy, the party which won by landslide in Burma’s last free and fair elections in 1990.

Now, since his release from prison late last year, U Win Tin has been trying very hard to re-energize the NLD party, to support families of other political prisoners, to strenghten unity between the party’s activists and other leading activists outside the party, and also to restore unity among new and old generations inside the party.

Because U Win Tin’s recent moves to re-enrgize the NLD party has started to show some positive effects, the military regime recently launched personal attacks against U Win Tin in its controlled media inside the country.

A pro-junta journal in Burma has been publishing articles aiming at discrediting U Win Tin, as well as causing a rift between U Win Tin and other caretaker leaders of the party. Junta’s information Ministry, using some junta-friendly native resident staffs of some foreign news agency, is trying to spread false news to the outside world, distorting U Win Tin’s speeches and interviews out of contex.

U Win Tin has recently to write a letter of complaints to a Western European news agency concerning one of its Myanmar native resident staffs distorting information and making false news reports about U Win Tin’s speeaches and interviews.