updated Tue. February 13, 2024
-
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
April 21, 2018
No one can bear such torture and no one is willing to endure torture. KZM: U Win Tin, who do you consider responsible for the [1988] coup? Was it General Khin Nyunt, Senior General Than Shwe, or Senior General Saw Maung? Was General Khin Nyunt the right hand man of General Ne Win at that time?
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
April 21, 2018
Ironically, he also spent time with some members of the former regime who were imprisoned after Snr-Gen Than Shwe ordered a purge of U Khin Nyunt's powerful Military Intelligence (MI) units in 2004. Several high-ranking MI officers, including one who had been in charge of U Win Tin's case, were thrown ...
Frontier Myanmar
April 19, 2018
The State Law and Order Restoration Council and subsequent State Peace and Development Council were led by General Than Shwe (who seized power from General Saw Maung in 1992). Than Shwe's attempts to liberalise Myanmar's economy and re-brand the nation with a new, anti-colonial identity ...
lareviewofbooks
March 28, 2018
In another case, [former president] Than Shwe's best friend wanted to confiscate 45 acres in Rangoon. He is a construction king and boss of Myanmar's legislature, notorious for showing that the military is still powerful. Even he was made to give the land back. He is appealing the decision, so we wait and ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 25, 2018
By Aung Zaw 26 March 2018. The Irrawaddy revisits this story from August 2012 in which former Red Flag communist Chit Hlaing recalls working alongside infamous figures from Myanmar's past including the brutal dictators Gen Ne Win and Snr-Gen Than Shwe. He died on March 24 at age 92. In his youth, when ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 23, 2018
During his final press conference as lower house speaker in January 2016, Thura Shwe Mann acknowledged that he had helped Daw Aung San Suu Kyi secure a private meeting with ex-dictator Than Shwe in December 2015. He also confirmed that he had recommended the NLD nominate U T Khun Myat ...
ucanews
March 23, 2018
He was briefly jailed by the Than Shwe-led junta three times. He took part in the 1990 elections from Danuphyu constituency in the Irrawaddy Delta but the results were annulled by the then military regime. He was elected as a legislator from Pathein constituency in a 2012 by-election. He also was elected ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 23, 2018
Several cabinet members, including U Kyaw Tint Swe, minister for the Office of the State Counsellor, also served under the former repressive regimes, working with top brass including Senior General Than Shwe, General Khin Nyunt, General Maung Aye and General Shwe Mann. With the exception of U ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 2, 2018
In November, as Myanmar marked the Kathein festival, the country's richest tycoons, as well as politicians including President U Thein Sein and Union Parliament Speaker U Shwe Mann, paid their respects to ex-Snr-Gen Than Shwe. The former head of the regime is praised within the powerful military ...
Mizzima News
February 28, 2018
The suspects arrested in this case, ANC Social Affairs In-charge Naing Soe, Maung Than Shwe, Shwe Tun Aung and Maung Oo Myint were produced before the Sittwe township court on February 26 in the afternoon and they were remanded up to March 12 under section 50(a)(i) of Anti-Terrorism Law.
Eleven Myanmar
February 27, 2018
Four people suspected of Sittwe bomb blasts were remanded at Sittwe Township court on February 26. Since the evening of February 25, the police have been interrogating former political prisoner Ko Naing Soe, former Lanthit ward administrator Shwe Tun Aung, Ko Than Shwe and Maung Oo Myint in ...
Mizzima News
February 27, 2018
Bombing suspects Shwe Htet Aung (L, front), Than Shwe (R, front), Maung Oo Myint (L, back) and Naing Soe (R, back) are escorted out of court by a police officer in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, 26 February 2018. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA-EFE. At least six people have been detained on suspicion of ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
February 16, 2018
He reportedly has close relations with the former dictator Than Shwe's family. It will also be interesting to see how the country's judiciary handles the case, given the contradictory testimony from police involved in the case. At the latest hearing on Wednesday, a second police lieutenant who was part of the ...
Democratic Voice of Burma
February 14, 2018
Ann Thar Gyi, also known as Than Shwe, is chairman of the civil society group Thingaha Kan Lett Rakhita, which is extensively involved in social work in Rakhine State. He appeared before a court in Mrauk-U Township, Rakhine State, for his 14th hearing on Wednesday, when he walked free after being ...
Frontier Myanmar
February 13, 2018
Sanchaung jewellery workshop owner U Than Shwe, who has worked as a goldsmith for 27 years. (Steve Tickner | Frontier). About 90 percent of the jewellery on sale in Myanmar is believed to be machine-made, says Turquoise Mountain, an NGO working in partnership with the Suu Foundation to promote ...
Eleven Myanmar
December 31, 1999
The detainees are Ko Naing Soe, Ko Than Shwe, Shwe Tun Aung, Kyaw Myint Shwe, Maung Myint Shwe, Maung Aye Win, Maung Oo Myint, Maung Thet Soe Paing and Maung Myint Kyi. Ko Naing Soe is a CEC member of Arakan National Council and an in-charge of Social Affairs Department.
Frontier Myanmar
December 31, 1999
Under the junta headed by Senior General Than Shwe, from 1992 to 2011, 15 notes were issued with new designs but only one featured the Bogyoke's image. “The name of the Bogyoke was obliterated in various ways [under military rule],” said Pyithu Hluttaw MP U Kyaw Aung Lwin (NLD, Sidoktaya, ...
