U Ko Ni (Suu Kyi adviser) Age, Wife, Biography, Death Cause & More
Some Lesser Known Facts About U Ko Ni
- Does U Ko Ni smoke?:Â Not Known
- Does U Ko Ni drink alcohol?: Not Known
- U Ko Ni was a popular human rights lawyer and a legal adviser to Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
- He was a Burmese Muslim and a Supreme Court Lawyer who had handled 900+ criminal cases and 1400+ civil cases.
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He founded Laurel Law Firm in 1995 with 2 other advocates.
- He wrote 6 books on human rights issues and democratic elections.
- He was involved in the interfaith peace movement.
- On 29 January 2017, on his return from a government delegation trip to Indonesia, he was shot in the head when he was hiring a taxi outside the airport around 5 pm by an assassin who also killed the taxi driver. Later, the assassin was identified by police as U Kyi Lin from Mandalay, Myanmar.
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