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JUST DESERT?



JUST DESERTS?
Bangkok Post(27/12/1997)Saturday


Exild students said yesterday that a former Burmese health minister who 
mistreated wounded protesters during the 1988 uprising died after a 
hospital refused to admit him because he had no money.

The All Burma Students Democratic Front, based in Bangkok, said Htun 
Wai, former minister of health, was struck by a hit-and-run driver on 
August 11 in Rangoon.

Htun Wai was refused treatment because there were no family members to 
guarantee medical bills would paid, and hospital staff did not recognise 
him.

The students did not cite a source or explain why the incident came to  
light several months later.

They said Htun Wai shackled pro-democracy protesters to their beds in 
1988 and refused to treat them. (AP)

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