[2] He regularly met with journalists, usually in secret, both inside and outside Myanmar, in order to draw international attention to the pro-democracy struggle against the military government of the country.
[2] During that same year, thousands of Burmese civilians were killed by the military during a pro-democracy uprising against the government.
[2] He became a leading party official in Mon State's National League for Democracy following the Burmese general election of 1990 in which Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD took the majority of the seats in the Burmese parliament.
Myint Thein remained a close ally of the NLD's imprisoned leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
[2] It took two months for Myint Thein to get the needed permission from the military junta to leave Burma for treatment in Singapore.