The Last Journey for the Man of Peace
The Last Journey for the Man of Peace: A Daughter’s Remembrance by Aye Aye Thant November 25, 2019 is the 45th anniversary of my father U Thant’s passing. I would like to take this opportunity to share my personal recollections of a fateful time: the events surrounding my father’s funeral, when student activists in Rangoon seized my father’s body to protest the military government’s refusal to give him a state funeral. My father, U Thant, passed away at the age of 65 on Monday, November 25, 1974 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where he had...