Shortly before her house arrest, in 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi told a foreign reporter that Aung San had warned his comrades not to trust Ne Win only weeks before his assassination. She hinted that Ne Win might have been involved in her father's assassination, but that nobody in Burmese politics was comfortable with publicly accusing him. According to Aung San Suu Kyi, Aung San never intended for the Burmese military to be involved in politics, and if he had survived would have limited the influence of its leaders. This criticism was similar to the criticism of Kyaw Zaw, who in 1976 had claimed that, before his assassination, Aung San was seriously considering removing Ne Win from office due to his actions under the Japanese, which had led Aung San to worry that Ne Win had "fascist" tendencies. Aung San had disliked Ne Win since the time they trained together in Hainan, when he criticized Ne Win's tendency for cunning and political calculation, and for his habits of gambling and womanizing. Aung San's dislike of Ne Win increased after the Japanese occupied Burma, when Ne Win tortured prisoners in cooperation with the Japanese secret police. In the 1950s one foreign diplomat recalled that Ne Win was still "very jealous of Aung San", and as late as 1986 the Karen National Union published an article suggesting that Ne Win may have been involved in the assassination. The first detailed telegram to London from the governor following the assassination noted that the gunmen were from the 4th Burma Rifles, under Ne Win's command, though this was not reported afterwards. Several decades after Aung San's assassination, in 1968, Ne Win successfully assassinated Aung San's brother-in-law, Thakin Than Tun.