Myanmar general turned democracy backer dies at 93

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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Aung Gyi, a senior army officer who served briefly in Myanmar’s post-coup military junta but later became a founder of the country’s pro-democracy movement, died Thursday at age 93.

His family says he died from cardiac arrest.

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