Min Aung Hlaing | |
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မင်းအောင်လှိုင် | |
![]() Min Aung Hlaing in 2021 | |
Chairman of the State Administration Council | |
Assumed office 2 February 2021 | |
President |
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Deputy | Soe Win |
Preceded by | Aung San Suu Kyi (as State Counsellor) |
President of Myanmar | |
Acting | |
Assumed office 22 July 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Himself |
Vice President | Myint Swe |
Preceded by | Myint Swe (acting) |
12th Prime Minister of Myanmar | |
Assumed office 1 August 2021 | |
President |
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Deputy | See list |
Preceded by | Thein Sein (2011) |
Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services | |
Assumed office 30 March 2011 | |
President | |
Deputy | Soe Win |
State Counsellor | Aung San Suu Kyi |
Preceded by | Than Shwe |
Joint Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces | |
In office June 2010 – 30 March 2011 | |
Commander-in-Chief | Than Shwe |
Preceded by | Shwe Mann |
Succeeded by | Hla Htay Win[1] |
Personal details | |
Born | Minbu, Magway Region, Union of Burma[2] | 3 July 1956
Spouse | Kyu Kyu Hla |
Children | Aung Pyae Sone Khin Thiri Thet Mon |
Alma mater | Rangoon Arts and Sciences University (LL.B) Defence Services Academy |
Website | www |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Myanmar |
Branch/service | Myanmar Army |
Years of service | 1974–present |
Rank | Senior General |
Commands | |
Battles/wars | |
Min Aung Hlaing (Burmese: မင်းအောင်လှိုင်; pronounced [mɪ́ɰ̃ àʊɰ̃ l̥àɪɰ̃]; born 3 July 1956) is a Burmese army general who has ruled Myanmar as the chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) since seizing power in the February 2021 coup d'état. He additionally appointed himself Prime Minister of Myanmar in August 2021, and President in July 2024.[3] He has led the Tatmadaw (armed forces of Myanmar), an independent branch of government, as the Commander-in-chief of Defence Services since March 2011, when he was handpicked to succeed longtime military ruler Senior General Than Shwe, who transferred leadership over the country to a civilian government upon retiring.[4][5][6] Before assuming leadership over the Tatmadaw, Min Aung Hlaing served as Joint Chief of Staff from 2010 to 2011. Min Aung Hlaing is the first Defence Services Academy (DSA) graduate in Myanmar to lead a military coup as well as the first DSA graduate to become Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services.[7]
Born in Minbu, Magway Region, Union of Burma, Min Aung Hlaing studied law at the Rangoon Arts and Science University before joining the military. Rising through its ranks, he became a senior general (five-star general) by 2013.[8][better source needed] During the period of civilian rule from 2011 to 2021, Min Aung Hlaing worked to ensure the military's continued role in politics and forestalled the peace process with ethnic armed groups. A United Nations fact-finding mission found he deliberately perpetrated the Rohingya genocide. He maintained an adversarial relationship with democratically-elected State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, though she defended him against genocide charges.[9]
Min Aung Hlaing baselessly claimed widespread voting irregularities and electoral fraud in the 2020 Myanmar general election, in which Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide re-election. He then seized power from her in the 2021 coup.[10][11][12] He had been expected to run for President of Myanmar had the military proxy party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), won enough seats in parliament to elect him, and would have been required to retire as Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services due to a statutory age limit.[13] With the outbreak of mass protests against his rule, Min Aung Hlaing ordered a clampdown and suppression of demonstrations,[14] sparking an ongoing civil war.[15]
Min Aung Hlaing's forces have employed scorched earth tactics in the civil war, including airstrikes on civilians.[16][17] He has ordered the execution of prominent pro-democracy activists, the first use of the death penalty in decades.[18][19] In February 2024, he activated Myanmar's conscription law to draft 60,000 young people into the Tatmadaw.[20] In foreign policy, he has resisted influence from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and relied on greater cooperation with Russia, China, and India.[21][22] In response to his human rights abuses and corruption, Min Aung Hlaing and his government have been subjected to an extensive series of international sanctions, returning Myanmar to its former status as a pariah state. The 2022 Democracy Index rated Myanmar under Min Aung Hlaing as the second-most authoritarian regime in the world, with only Afghanistan rated less democratic.[23]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Min Aung Hlaing has returned Myanmar to a pariah state and made it the world's second most authoritarian regime, per the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2022 Democracy Index. Only Taliban-ruled Afghanistan ranked worse.
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