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Subject: Kyodo News-Myanmar Ambassador to Japan was dismissed

KyodoNews: 
Myanmar Ambassador to Japan was dismissed

[Bangkok, 6th August, 1999] A Myanmar junta high officer told to Kyodo on 
6th August that Kin Maung Thein, Myanmar Ambassador to Japan, aged 48, had
got rid of the post during his recent temporal stay in Myanmar.  The
officer explained the reason of his discharge briefly: "He isn't
suitable for diplomat because he speaks too much.", but refused to
comment further details.

Mr. Khin Maung Thein had been the consul general to Hong Kong before he
was assigned to the Ambassador to Japan in this January.  During his
term of service, Brig. General Kyaw Win, deputy director of Myanmar's
defense ministry office of strategic studies, visited Japan on January,
and encountered protests of Burmese pro-democracy activists in Japan.  

His discharge was noticed to him when he come back to Myanmar in the end
of July, but formally, he was treated as handing in the resignation and
being accepted by the authority.  He started his carrier as an officer
of Military Intelligence over which General Khin Nyunt, Secretary-1 of
the Council has great influences. Related source said his
straightforward character made Khin Maung Thein turn to a diplomat.  

Japanese Embassy in Yangon had been reported by the junta of his
resignation in the early of August, but the reason not.  Japanese
Ambassador to Myanmar is one of the most important posts for the junta,
as much as to Thai, the U.S. or U.K..