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Former senior intelligence officers visit China ahead of Myanmar junta chief’s trip
The flurry of diplomatic activity comes amid China’s growing concern over the Myanmar military’s unprecedented losses to its ...
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Purging Predecessors: Inside the Ruthless Playbook of Myanmar’s Dictators
The recent arrest of former dictator Than Shwe’s son-in-law marks the latest chapter in an old story of insecurity and brutality among the country’s military leaders.
The Irrawaddy8dOpinion
Myanmar Brings Old Spooks Out of Retirement to Reach Out to China
Ahead of Min Aung Hlaing’s trip to China, a number of former military intelligence men visited Beijing on behalf of a shadowy ...
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Violence in Prome (September/October 2001)
who had gathered in Prome for a religious ceremony that intelligence chief Lt General Khin Nyunt was due to attend. Many Muslim shop-owners had their properties destroyed. "The military did indeed ...
National Geographic news4y
Myanmar’s River of Spirits
They are considered such holy objects that in 1997 General Khin Nyunt—since ousted from the ruling junta—decided he wanted to move them from the island to a special temple in the capital.
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Myanmar’s Other Civilian Deaths
Credit: AP Photo On May 17, 60-year-old Khin Nyunt Wai and her son Myo Myint were found shot dead in their home in the town of Pakokku in central Myanmar. News pages reported that unknown ...
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What Does Myanmar’s Purge Mean for Its Election?
Past high-level purges in Myanmar, including the 2004 dismissal and imprisonment of intelligence chief and prime minister General Khin Nyunt, were often justified on grounds of corruption but ...
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Than Shwe: The soldier and the state
Since reaching the top, Than Shwe has shown "a talent for hanging on to power," says Seekins. Rivals are ruthlessly purged: Khin Nyunt, his ambitious former spy chief, has been under house arrest ...
Cambridge University Press10mon
Myanmar's Long Road to National Reconciliation
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login In late 2004, Myanmar's best known general and long-serving leader of the military regime, General Khin Nyunt, was suddenly dismissed. This ...
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Appendix I: Glossary
Prime Minister Khin Nyunt. Names for cities, states/divisions and rivers before 1989 and SLORC/SPDC designated spelling post-1989 (Human Rights Watch uses the pre-1989 spellings).
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Shwe Man Thabin: Interview with Nyunt Win
MYANMAR, 2014 — Nyunt Win, U Tin Maung's eldest son, who enjoyed a long career in films, describes how his father encouraged his interest in acting and assesses the popularity of Zat Pwe in Myanmar ...
The Mirror6y
Soe Nyunt
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