‘I would rather die than resign’

THE country’s ousted president described that a deal to vacate his seat and save himself in the early moments of the February coup snuffed out his country’s shortlived democratic experiment, his lawyer said.

Win Myint (pic), who was detained along with civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, made the comments as he testified for the first time at his trial for incitement in a junta court.