YANGON (Reuters) - Win Tin, a veteran Myanmar journalist and ally of Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent 19 years in prison because of his fight against military rule, died on Monday at the age of 84, colleagues said.
He was a founding member of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) in 1988 and one of the party's leaders, but said he preferred being a journalist.
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