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((Short description|General and coup-leader))
((for|the Burmese weightlifter|Aung Gyi (weightlifter)))
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((Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = 
| name          = Aung Gyi
| native_name   = ((my|‌အောင်ကြီး))<br />陈旺枝
| image         = Aung Gyi.jpg
| alt           = 
| caption       = Aung Gyi in 1960
|order          = 
|term           = 
|succeeding     = 
|successor      = 
|leader2        = [[Aung San Suu Kyi]]
|office2        = President of the [[National League for Democracy]]
|term_start2    = 27 September 1988
|term_end2      = 3 December 1988
|predecessor2   = ''Position established''
|successor2     = [[Tin Oo]]
|order3         = Member of the [[Union Revolutionary Council|Revolutionary Council of Burma]]
|term_start3    = 2 March 1962
|term_end3      = 8 February 1963
|succeeding3    = 
|successor3     = 
|alongside3     = Ba Nyein and [[Tin Pe]]
| birth_name    = 
| birth_date    = 16 February 1919
| birth_place   = [[Paungde Township|Paungde]], [[British Burma]]
| death_date    = ((death date and age|2012|10|25|1919|3|16|df=y))
| death_place   = [[Mayangone Township]], [[Yangon]], [[Myanmar]]
| death_cause   = [[Heart failure]]
| resting_place = 
| nationality   = [[Burma|Burmese]]
| known_for     =
| occupation    = Politician (1963–2012); Deputy Commander-in-Chief (until 1963)
| spouse        = Mu Mu Thein
| children      = 4
| alma_mater    = 
| allegiance    = ((flagicon|Burma|1948)) [[Post-independence Burma, 1948–62|Union of Burma]]
| branch        = [[Myanmar Army|Burmese Army]]
| serviceyears  = 1948–1963
| rank          = [[Brigadier General]]
| unit          = 4th [[Burma Rifles]]
| commands      = Western Regional Military Command
| battles       = [[Rohingya conflict]]
| awards        = 
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'''Brigadier General Aung Gyi''' (((lang-my|အောင်ကြီး)) ((IPA-my|ʔàʊɰ̃ dʑí|)); 16 February 1919 – 25 October 2012) was a Burmese military officer and politician. He was a cofounder of the [[National League for Democracy]] and served as president of the party.

== Early life ==
He was born to a [[Burmese Chinese]] family in Paungde, British Burma in 1919.<ref name="bag">((cite news|url=http://netipr.org/8888/backdown_or_bloodbath_by_feer |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415122522/http://netipr.org/8888/backdown_or_bloodbath_by_feer |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=Backdown or bloodbath |date=22 September 1988 |work=Far Eastern Economic Review |publisher=Burma Action Group |accessdate=8 April 2012 ))</ref> His Chinese name was Chén Wàngzhī (((lang-zh|陈旺枝))).<ref>((cite web|last=叶|first=鹏|date=2015-09-05|title=缅甸昂季准将后人今何在 集美老人望再续骨肉情缘|trans-title=where is the posterity of Brigadier General Aung Gyi? [[Jimei District|Jimei]] old man want to keep on fammily love|url=http://www.mhwmm.com/ch/NewsView.asp?ID=29511|access-date=2018-05-08|website=www.mhwmm.com|publisher=Mianhua Web|language=Chinese|quote=|archive-date=2018-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509080726/http://www.mhwmm.com/ch/NewsView.asp?ID=29511|url-status=dead))</ref>

== Military career ==
Aung Gyi was member of General [[Ne Win]]'s 4th [[Burma Rifles]] rising to [[brigadier general]].

He played a role in the [[caretaker government]] of 1958-1960 led by Ne Win. Aung Gyi was number two in the [[Union Revolutionary Council]] set up after the 1962 [[coup]], serving as vice-chief of staff and minister of trade and industry until he was forced to resign on 8 February 1963 because of disagreements over economic policy with Ba Nyein and [[Tin Pe]].<ref>((cite book|last=Seekins|first=Donald M.|title=Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)|url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00seek|url-access=limited|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2006|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00seek/page/n124 91]–92|isbn=9780810854765 ))</ref> He was once known as Ne Win's [[heir apparent]].  In his memoirs, ''Saturday's Son'', published in 1974, [[U Nu]], then [[prime minister of Myanmar]], claimed that his handover of power to the caretaker government was not voluntary but that a group of army officers led by Brigadier Aung Gyi and Brigadier Maung Maung threatened him with a "straight military coup" should he refuse to handover power to Ne Win. The suggestion that this coup was mainly led by Brigadier Aung Gyi and Maung Maung was supported Col Hla Maw, former commanding officer of 11th Brigade.

Aung Gyi's role in suppressing the anti-government [[1962 Rangoon University Protests|student protests in 1962]] is not clear. In his resignation speech of 23 July 1988, [[Ne Win]] blamed Aung Gyi as "the real culprit" in the destruction of the [[Rangoon University]] Student Union Building on 8 July 1962. Aung Gyi was ousted in 1963, when he criticized the council's [[economic policy|economic policies]], and for statements made in Japan about the cause of the 1962 coup. He was imprisoned from 1965 to 1968 and again from 1973 to 1974. However, Aung Gyi remained loyal to the ''[[Tatmadaw]]'', the armed forces, and his connection with Ne Win remained intact despite his later blunt criticism of the government.

Prior to the [[8888 Uprising]], Aung Gyi had written several long open letters, widely distributed throughout the country, to [[Ne Win]] criticising the government, and they became an important factor for the opposition movement. On 7 March 1988, Aung Gyi wrote his first letter to Ne Win, suggesting economic reforms and a new cabinet. He strongly criticised the government's [[Burmese Way to Socialism]] and warned of possible social unrest. On 9 May 1988 he wrote a second 40-page open letter, reiterating the need for economic reforms.

In 1988, he emerged as prominent opposition leader and was imprisoned between 29 July and 25 August 1988. However, he remained a supporter of Ne Win and the army. Just before the army staged its coup on 18 September 1988, he told a crowd that he guaranteed that the army would not stage a coup and the interim government will be formed very soon: "I will kill myself, [if the army staged a coup]". After the coup, Aung Gyi told people who came to listen his speech that they "must not think  bad (or 'sin' against) the army even in your minds".

== Founding the NLD ==
The [[National League for Democracy]] was formed on 27 September 1988, with Aung Gyi as president, former General Thura [[Tin Oo]] as vice president and [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] as general secretary. He resigned on 3 December 1988 from the National League for Democracy (NLD), alleging [[communist]] infiltration, to form the [[Union National Democracy Party]] (UNDP) on 16 December 1988. Only one candidate from the UNDP was elected in the [[1990 Myanmar general election|May 1990 Myanmar general elections]]. At those elections, there were 485 constituencies. The NLD fielded 447 candidates, and 392 were elected.

In 1993 Aung Gyi was sentenced to six months imprisonment for not paying a bill for eggs.

In 1998 he visited the United States and recorded an extensive interview with [[Radio Free Asia]]. When asked about the army, he said: "People despise the Tatmadaw. This is a bad sign. The people of Burma have lost faith in the Tatmadaw." While he acknowledged the corruption and [[nepotism]] of the top junta leaders, he considered that democracy leader [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] was surrounded by communists, the same accusations made by the junta. He blamed the [[National League for Democracy|NLD]] for boycotting the National Convention established to draft a new constitution. He said, "I want U Ne Win to contribute something before he dies, because he knows what is right and wrong". He stated that Ne Win was still influential and had ordered the [[State Peace and Development Council]] (SPDC) to change the name of the government and reshape the cabinet in 1997.((citation needed|date=January 2019))

Aung Gyi was among the few who attended the funeral of Ne Win in 2002 who spoke fondly of Ne Win's achievements in helping bring independence to Myanmar in 1948, but he also stated that "Ne Win betrayed Burma and Ne Win betrayed the country. He committed rape of democracy in Burma by staging a coup. He died an inglorious death. It was a sad and tragic ending".

==Death==
On 25 October 2012, Aung Gyi died at his home in [[Mayangone Township]], [[Yangon]], [[Myanmar]], because of [[heart failure]].<ref name="nyein">((cite news|url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/17331|title=Former Junta No. 2 Aung Gyi Dies Aged 94|author=Nyein Nyein|date=26 October 2012|work=The Irrawaddy|accessdate=25 October 2012))</ref> He is survived by his wife Mu Mu Thein, four children and five grandchildren.<ref name="nyein"/>

==References==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030602043713/http://www.irrawaddy.org/res/bio.html#Aunggyi Short Biography]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081222102545/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,828014,00.html "Army Socialism"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. (February 22, 1963). - about 1963 ousting of Aung Gyi.
*Radio Free Asia: Editorial & Opinion: [https://www.burmalibrary.org/reg.burma/archives/199810/msg00160.html?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=31f5d54e7fdeba976814e7998386e25b61c47d79-1625000821-0-AaTZHN20Zk5fJJo-xqqiXUAlup-1Z6NrQCVG2QF9ULHPCSf_89kNqr5wVA_1kg_cs5Lb1YVxegEu7KyuPa_wZa-jZ73t0ZX9WRExPdjag7DV-fhat47v8gYvpHd67oDwhx4BxDDfmQBktVuCo-o7OkQ8yAPVEUfVn6-YscavB5RNPiHhj0XHoUBWYUPzZMK7Sr_1v6sEe9LpsTtx8HM6_98XzS4SGK5wKJ9mSkmq_Kb-PiMFjwoJletzXfAKJgp-8ydU69EprUYMFEGN7ROS4n_tmf6aEVJq_Kf7-y6ulkADIwRa26iMGd46TSa-CbKPDp4HftqYbknRrUglkULsbR52k-KxadP1w7iciZlfFG4DWaMRkwqv8J9Pwon96DSM21A5uSic3oPOMnz8xZakAxUFs-_HU7gHTK3HXnVfag_iooZOiHbl6SpThTHR7PTmUw "Aung Gyi, Burma's General of ill omen"] 6 October 1988, with extensive quotations from his interview.
*Associated Press 6 December 2002, "Former dictator Ne Win's remains scattered in river"
*''Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma''. Mary Patricia Callahan (Cornell University Press 2003)
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