The 79-year-old former journalist, imprisoned for 19 years, will return to the National League of Democracy's Central Executive Committee, Nyan Win said.
"He started coming to the headquarters on Monday to start his duties as a member (of the committee). We are very glad he is rejoining," Nyan Win said.
Win Tin was released along with more than 9,000 inmates on September 23 in an amnesty ahead of national elections promised for 2010.
He was one of the founders of the NLD party together with Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi, who remains detained at her lakeside home in Yangon.
Win Tin never witnessed his party's landslide victory in 1990 elections - a win never recognized by the junta - because he was imprisoned in July 1989 for his role as Aung San Suu Kyi's advisor, and for his letters to the then-United Nations envoy to Myanmar.
Win Tin was officially invited by the NLD leadership to rejoin the party's ruling committee on the 20th anniversary of its founding on September 27.
Two days after Win Tin's release, Myanmar's police chief held his first meeting with six NLD leaders, asking them to retract their latest statement calling for a constitutional review - a move they refused.
A new constitution was brought in after a much-criticized May referendum held in the wake of a massive cyclone that swept across the country, leaving 138,000 people dead or missing.
The junta's constitution paves the way for multiparty elections to be held in 2010 but bars Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent most of the past two decades under house arrest, from standing.
Myanmar has been ruled by the military since 1962.
"He started coming to the headquarters on Monday to start his duties as a member (of the committee). We are very glad he is rejoining," Nyan Win said.
Win Tin was released along with more than 9,000 inmates on September 23 in an amnesty ahead of national elections promised for 2010.
He was one of the founders of the NLD party together with Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi, who remains detained at her lakeside home in Yangon.
Win Tin never witnessed his party's landslide victory in 1990 elections - a win never recognized by the junta - because he was imprisoned in July 1989 for his role as Aung San Suu Kyi's advisor, and for his letters to the then-United Nations envoy to Myanmar.
Win Tin was officially invited by the NLD leadership to rejoin the party's ruling committee on the 20th anniversary of its founding on September 27.
Two days after Win Tin's release, Myanmar's police chief held his first meeting with six NLD leaders, asking them to retract their latest statement calling for a constitutional review - a move they refused.
A new constitution was brought in after a much-criticized May referendum held in the wake of a massive cyclone that swept across the country, leaving 138,000 people dead or missing.
The junta's constitution paves the way for multiparty elections to be held in 2010 but bars Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent most of the past two decades under house arrest, from standing.
Myanmar has been ruled by the military since 1962.
Regime army moves against refugees
"The villagers are chased, rice barns and food are sequestered or destroyed, large cornfields are burned as well as several houses in different villages," the NGO said in a statement.
Five schools and two hospitals the organization was operating in the region with donations from Europe had to be closed. The helpers were still trying to treat the often heavily injured victims despite the fighting.
Myanmar's army was moving against members of the Karen ethnic minority with the aid of the DKBA, a breakaway from the Karen National Union (KNU), a rebel group that has been fighting for the autonomy of the Karen State for the past six decades.
In an attempt to escape the violence many fled to the border region with Thailand. The organization accused Thai authorities of driving back refugees across the border, after Myanmar soldiers and militiamen crossed into Thailand and committed acts of violence.
"And the international community is silent," noted the NGO.
Five schools and two hospitals the organization was operating in the region with donations from Europe had to be closed. The helpers were still trying to treat the often heavily injured victims despite the fighting.
Myanmar's army was moving against members of the Karen ethnic minority with the aid of the DKBA, a breakaway from the Karen National Union (KNU), a rebel group that has been fighting for the autonomy of the Karen State for the past six decades.
In an attempt to escape the violence many fled to the border region with Thailand. The organization accused Thai authorities of driving back refugees across the border, after Myanmar soldiers and militiamen crossed into Thailand and committed acts of violence.
"And the international community is silent," noted the NGO.
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