Lt-Gen Myint Aung, Burma's former adjutant general, who was appointed defense minister by junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe last week, has been placed under house arrest in Naypyidaw after formally declining the ministerial position, according to sources in the Burmese capital.
“Thura” Myint Aung was thought to be in line for the position as commander-in-chief of the armed forces—a title held currently by Than Shwe—but the military junta strongman has not stepped down.
Myint Aung
“He reportedly said that he did not want to be the defense minister under the possible new Commander-in-Chief Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing,” a military source said.
Myint Aung graduated from the elite Defense Services Academy (DSA) Intake 18 while Min Aung Hlaing was from DSA Intake 19; Myint Aung therefore being one year senior to Min Aung Hlaing.
Sources in Naypyidaw concur that Myint Aung was popular and respected among his peers and subordinates while Min Aung Hlaing is generally seen as “arrogant.”
Lt-Gen Ko Ko will now take over as head of the Defense Ministry, it was announced at Parliament on Wednesday.
After turning down the cabinet position last week, Myint Aung was dismissed from his role as lieutenant-general then placed under house arrest and separated from his family, a source said, adding that houses in Rangoon and Naypyidaw and a vehicle that had been provided for him have been retaken.
A businessman close to Myint Aung's family said that his family members were back home in Rangoon earlier this week, but that Myint Aung did not appear.
Along with more than one dozen senior military officials, such as Gen Shwe Mann, Gen Tin Aung Myint Oo, Lt-Gen Tin Aye and Lt-Gen Ko Ko, 55-year-old Myint Aung was removed from his military position in late August.
However, Myint Aung, Ko Ko and some others continued to serve in military uniform while Shwe Mann, Tin Aung Myint Oo and Tin Aye shed their uniforms to take part in November's general elections.
At the time, rumors from Naypyidaw suggested that Than Shwe favored Myint Aung and Ko Ko to succeed him and and his deputy, Vice Snr-Gen Maung Aye, respectively.
Myint Aung’s last public appearance was on Nov 7 when MRTV evening news showed him and his wife voting at a polling station in Naypyidaw alongside other generals and their wives.
Under the autocratic rule of Than Shwe, the rise and fall of many military generals has been swift and at times seemingly arbitrary.
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ဧရာဝတီ Thursday, 10 February 2011 18:51 .သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ကို အစုိးရ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး အာဏာလႊဲေပးမည္ ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေရႊ ဦးေဆာင္ပါ၀င္ေသာ ႏုိင္ငံ့ဥေသွ်ာင္ အဖြဲ႕ ဖြဲ႕စည္းၿပီး အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး ယႏၱရားကို ႀကီးၾကပ္ကြပ္ကဲမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေနျပည္ေတာ္အေျခစုိက္ သတင္း ရပ္ကြက္မွ စုံစမ္းသိရွိရသည္။
ႏိုင္ငံ့ဥေသွ်ာင္ အဖြဲ႕တြင္ပါဝင္မည့္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးႏွင့္ ဒုတိယဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို အဓိက ႀကီးၾကပ္ကြပ္ကဲ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္မည့္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားအျဖစ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေရႊ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ႏုိင္ငံ့ဥေသွ်ာင္အဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္လုံၿခဳံေရးေကာင္စီ အဖြဲ႕ဟူ၍ ၂ ဖြဲ႕ ရွိလာမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။
ႏုိင္ငံ့ဥေသွ်ာင္အဖြဲ႕တြင္ အဖြဲ႕၀င္ ၈ ဦး ပါ၀င္မည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊ၊ ဒုတိယဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး ေမာင္ေအး၊ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးေဟာင္းႏွင့္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠ႒ သူရဦးေရႊမန္း၊ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္၊ ဒုတိယ သမၼတ သီဟ သူရ ဦးတင္ေအာင္ျမင့္ဦး၊ ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးေဟာင္း ဦးတင္ေအးႏွင့္အတူ တျခားအဆင့္ျမင့္ စစ္အရာရွိေဟာင္း ၂ ဦး ပါ၀င္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
“ဒီ ဥေသွ်ာင္အဖြဲ႕ ဆုိတာက ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ရဲ႕ အဆင့္အျမင့္ဆုံးေသာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းႀကီးေပါ့။ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး ယႏၱရားကို ႀကီးၾကပ္တာမ်ဳိးထက္ အႀကံေပးအဖြဲ႕ဆိုတဲ့ ပုံစံနဲ႔ အစုိးရ အဆက္ဆက္ကုိ ကူညီအႀကံေပးတာမ်ဳိး လုပ္မယ္လို႔ သိရမယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အဲဒီအဖြဲ႕ရဲ႕ ၾသဇာအာဏာက ေတာ္ေတာ္ႀကီးမား ပါလိမ့္မယ္” ဟု စစ္တပ္အသုိင္း အ၀န္းႏွင့္ နီးစပ္သူတဦးက
ေျပာသည္။
၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပုံ အေျခခံ ဥပေဒအရ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာမည့္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ ကာကြယ္ေရးႏွင့္ လုံၿခဳံေရးေကာင္စီသည္ သမၼတ၊ ဒုတိယ သမၼတ ၂ ဦး၊ ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္၊ ဒုတိယ ကာကြယ္ ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္၊ ကာကြယ္ေရး၀န္ႀကီး၊ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး၊ ျပည္ထဲေရး ၀န္ႀကီး၊ နယ္စပ္ေရးရာ ၀န္ႀကီး၊ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠ႒ႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသား လႊတ္ေတာ္ဥကၠ႒တုိ႔ ပါ၀င္ေသာ အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ ၁၁ အဖြဲ႕ျဖစ္သည္။
ေနာက္ဆံုးသိရေသာ သတင္းမ်ားအရ လာမည့္ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ နအဖက အရပ္သားအစိုးရကို အာဏာလႊဲေျပာင္း ေပးမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ယခုအခါ ေနျပည္ေတာ္၌ အစည္းအေဝးမ်ား ထုိင္ေနၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ယခုလက္ရွိတြင္ ရဲခ်ဳပ္ရာထူးကို ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း ဒုတိယတုိင္းမႉး ဗိုလ္မႉးခ်ဳပ္ ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ထြန္းအားလည္းေကာင္း၊ ရဲ အထူးသတင္းတပ္ဖြဲ႕ ညႊန္ၾကားေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္အား ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး တင္စိုးအားလည္းေကာင္း ခန္႔အပ္လိုက္ၿပီျဖစ္သည္။
စစ္တပ္အတြင္း ရာထူးအေျပာင္းအလဲမ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ႀကီးစဥ္ငယ္လုိက္ မဟုတ္ဘဲ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊက ယုံၾကည္သူမ်ားသာ အဓိက ရာထူးမ်ား ရရွိေနျခငး္ေၾကာင့္ မေက်နပ္မႈမ်ားျဖစ္ေပၚေနေၾကာင္း ေနျပည္ေတာ္ စစ္တပ္ အသိုင္းအဝန္းမွ သိရွိရသည္။
ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ မျဖစ္ခဲ့သည့္အတြက္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊကို ေစာဒကတက္ေသာ ဒုတိယဗိုလ္ ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး သူရျမင့္ေအာင္သည္ ဒုတိယဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး ေမာင္ေအးက ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ခန္႔အပ္ရန္ အဆိုျပဳ ထားခဲ့သူျဖစ္ၿပီး ယခုအခါ တပ္မွ အထုတ္ပယ္ ခံထားရေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။
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