"U Tin Oo, as Chairman of the National League for Democracy and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The General Secretary of the NLD, were placed under house arrest in July 1989 while actively campaigning for the restoration of democracy in Burma following the 1988 student uprising. In December of 1989 U Tin Oo was arrested by the military authorities arid sentenced to three years imprisonment, which was later extended to five years. Following U Tin Oo?s imprisonment. U Aung Shwe became the Chairman of the NLD, a position he continues to hold today. While U Tin Oo was being held in Insein Prison, the NLD won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections..."