Ne Win
However, Thant's grandson, Thant Myint-U, wrote in the book "The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma" that intense animosity between Thant and Ne Win went back only to 1969, when Ne Win believed Thant was conniving with Nu after Nu denounced Ne Win at a press corps meeting at the UN headquarters. Ne Win told his men to consider Thant as an enemy of the state, despite Thant denouncing Nu's action as inappropriate.