Prominent Figures
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
See the main Aung San Suu Kyi Section
Individual Documents
| Title: | | Hoffnung auf Zehenspitzen |
| Date of publication: | | 23 August 2002 |
| Description/subject: | | Aung San Suu Kyi - Nahaufnahme einer Ikone |
| Author/creator: | | Charlotte Wiedemann |
| Language: | | Deutsch, German |
| Source/publisher: | | Freitag Jg. 2002 Nr. 35 |
| Format/size: | | php 19k |
| Date of entry/update: | | 20 March 2006 |
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General Khin Nyunt
Individual Documents
| Title: | | "Romeo and Juliet" Love Dooms Son |
| Date of publication: | | April 1998 |
| Description/subject: | | Burma's strong man and intelligence chief, has publicly announced that he has disowned his son. Lt Gen. Khin Nyunt and his wife Dr Daw Kin Win Shwe placed an advertisement in state-run New Light of Myanmar announcing that their son "Dr Ye Naing Win was disowned by the parents for his inexcusable deed". |
| Author/creator: | | Yurdle |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 6. No. 2 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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General Than Shwe
Individual Documents
| Title: | | The Emperor Looks to The Future |
| Date of publication: | | June 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | How will Snr-Gen Than Shwe safeguard himself and his family after the election?...
"In an interview with a US television journalist on April 14, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong predicted that Burma’s ruling generals will not easily give up power, saying it is an “existential thing” for the few key people who make the decisions..." |
| Author/creator: | | Aung Zaw |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 18, No. 6 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 29 August 2010 |
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| Title: | | Than Shwe's Grandson Steals the Show |
| Date of publication: | | December 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | For many visitors to November’s Auto Show in Rangoon, the real attraction wasn’t the flashy cars but Nay Shwe Thway Aung, the 18-year-old playboy grandson of the junta’s No 1, Snr-Gen Than Shwe. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 17, No. 9 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 28 February 2010 |
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| Title: | | Mächtiger Chef der Junta gegen Mönche |
| Date of publication: | | 27 September 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | Er hat sie alle unter sich: die Streitkräfte, die Regierung. Er weiß, wie man herrscht, foltert, unterdrückt. In psychologischer Kriegsführung ist er in jungen Jahren profund ausgebildet worden, als es Ende der 1950er-Jahre darum ging, gegen die Minderheit der Karen zu kämpfen; Aufstieg Than Shwes seit 1988; Politik Than Shwes; politics of Than Shwe since 1988 |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Source/publisher: | | Der Standard |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 May 2008 |
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| Title: | | Than Shwe—Man in the Iron Mask |
| Date of publication: | | February 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Burma’s paramount leader may be an unknown figure to most, but he has shown his leadership mettle...
"The Burmese hardly know their paramount leader, Snr-Gen Than Shwe. His former close friends knew him as an honest and simple soldier. But even if he lacks charisma and possesses few rounded leadership skills today, he has an iron grip on power..." |
| Author/creator: | | Aung Zaw |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 2 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 28 August 2005 |
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| Title: | | Than Shwe: Burma’s Strongman? |
| Date of publication: | | January 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | "The unrivalled leader of the country shows no signs of yielding power...
When Burma was rocked by nationwide street demonstrations in 1988, a high-ranking army officer feared the mob might suddenly turn their anger against his family. To protect them, says a close friend of the officer, he locked his family inside their home because "they were scared to death".
The head of that household is Sr-Gen Than Shwe, now the leader of Burma’s military government. Today, the streets in Rangoon are safer than in 1988 and his family no longer worries for their security. But Than Shwe is not about to let down his guard.
"He is still scared," jokes a former army officer living in Rangoon. "Scared to give up power."
His paranoia does not augur well for the people of Burma..." |
| Author/creator: | | Aung Zaw |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 11, No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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U Ne Win
Individual Documents
| Title: | | Sorting the Tamadaw After Ne Win |
| Date of publication: | | January 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | "With Ne Win’s death, some say the personality-driven succession arrangements among leaders of the armed forces will go too...
If history is any guide, the current military leaders will find it tougher to manage succession arrangements within the Tatmadaw (armed forces) in the wake of Ne Win’s death and the collapse of his personal dictatorship.
A new style of personality power was institutionalized when Ne Win, sensing the important role the military would play in determining Burma’s post-colonial fate, gained control of the Tatmadaw in 1949. Only his most trusted proteges rose among the ranks while he demoted other officers whimsically. He personally handpicked former Gen Saw Maung and the current Number One, Sr-Gen Than Shwe..." |
| Author/creator: | | Min Zin |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 11. No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | The Talk of the Town Turns Ninety |
| Date of publication: | | May 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | With the talks between Burma's military rulers and the democratic opposition still under wraps in Rangoon, the talk of the capital has turned to the latest public appearance by former dictator Ne Win. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 9. No. 4 (Intelligence section) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | The King Who Never Dies |
| Date of publication: | | April 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | Ne Win, the mastermind behind Burma's decline as a modern nation, has emerged from the shadows for the first time this century. |
| Author/creator: | | Aung Zaw |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 9, No. 3 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Broadening the Breach |
| Date of publication: | | July 2000 |
| Description/subject: | | In November 1977, Burmese dictator Ne Win made a visit to Cambodia, then under the control of the Khmer Rouge. Prompted by a request from China, the trip also helped Ne Win to neutralize the influence of the Communist Party of Burma by exploiting a growing rift between the conservative CPB leadership and reformers rising to power in Beijing. Bertil Lintner examines this revealing episode in Ne Win's political career. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol..8 No. 7 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Back in the Limelight |
| Date of publication: | | September 1997 |
| Description/subject: | | Burma's former leader Ne Win arrived in Jakarta for a three-day visit amid speculation that Indonesian President Suharto was to ask the Burmese patriarch to influence Rangoon's military junta to open dialogue with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Speculation began to circulate in Jakarta two months ago that Suharto was inviting Ne Win to come discuss the issue of democratisation in Burma. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 5. No. 6 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | The Rise and Fall of General Ne Win |
| Date of publication: | | September 1997 |
| Description/subject: | | Bio-chronology 1947-1988 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 5. No.6 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Letter to General Ne Win from U Aung Gyi |
| Date of publication: | | August 1997 |
| Description/subject: | | Rangoon May 1, 1992 Through a series of open letters to Ne Win and former members of the Revolutionary Council written between 1988 and 1992, U Aung Gyi criticized the economic policies and human rights abuses of the government. The following excerpts are from one of these letters. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Burma Debate", Vol.. IV, No. 3 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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U Tin Oo (NLD)
Individual Documents
| Title: | | U Tin Oo (NLD) |
| Date of publication: | | 16 December 2010 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Wikipedia |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 December 2010 |
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