What nationality was U Thant, the third UN Secretary General?
U Thant of Thant's coffin, many people rioted in the streets of Rangoon. Martial law was declared in Rangoon and the surrounding metropolitan areas. What has come to be known as the U Thant crisis—the student-led protests over the shabby treatment of Thant by the Ne Win government—was crushed by the Burmese government. In 1978, Thant's memoirs, "View from the UN", were posthumously published, initially by Doubleday. In April 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid his respects at U Thant's mausoleum during a visit to Yangon. Thant had three brothers: Khant, Thaung, and Tin Maung. He was married to Daw Thein Tin.
U Thant funeral crisis sources, thousands of protesters were arrested and at least eighteen died, but unofficial figures are much higher. Before holding the role of UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971, Thant was a civil servant under the administration of U Nu, the first prime minister of Burma. As the Secretary of Projects for the Prime Minister's office, Thant accompanied Nu on several official trips overseas. Thant also represented Burma at the 1952 UN General Assembly and the 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia. In 1957, he became Burma's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. When Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane