Khin Nyunt
General Khin Nyunt ( Burmese ) ( born October 11, 1939 in Kyauktan, Yangon Division, Burma) is an officer and politician in Myanmar. He was Chief of Military Intelligence and dated 25 August 2003 to 18 October 2004 Prime Minister of the country. He is considered the initiator of ceasefire negotiations and agreements between the military regime and ethnic armed movements, such as the United Wa State Army and the Kachin Independent Army.
Life
After a career in the military Khin Nyunt was ordered back to Rangoon in 1984. There, North Korean terrorists had carried out an attack on a South Korean government delegation in the capital, in which several people were killed. Khin Nyunt was then appointed to head of military intelligence.
After the bloody crackdown on the uprising in August 1988, Khin Nyunt on which was instrumental in, built the military, the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ), in German as " State Council for the restoration of law and order." Khin Nyunt was its first secretary, a position he kept using the renaming of the SLORC in SPDC (State Peace and Development Council ) on November 15, 1997 addition. His appointment as prime minister, he was forced to resign this post to Lieutenant-General Soe Win.
Tenure as Prime Minister
Shortly after the inauguration of the new Prime Minister presented a seven -point roadmap ( Roadmap ) for the restoration of democracy. This roadmap has been criticized both by the Burmese opposition at home and abroad as well as many foreign countries as insufficient because on the one hand he tried to commit the already predetermined in the Constituent Assembly in 1996 vertices, in particular the involvement of the military in government violence and contained no temporal horizon to the other.
The first step of the seven -point plan, the reconvening of the suspended National Assembly in 1996 to draft a constitution, made in view of the increasing pressure of foreign countries on 17 May 2004.
After only two months of meeting on a screened from the public military compound outside Yangon, the National Assembly has been suspended indefinitely.
The support for his own " roadmap for the restoration of democracy " can be seen in the fact that neither the Prime Minister Khin Nyunt still the de facto head of state Than Shwe attended the opening ceremony for the National Assembly.
Since his appointment as Prime Minister has been repeatedly speculated about the actual role of Khin Nyunt. Khin Nyunt was within the military junta as a moderate pragmatist who recognized the need for dialogue with the democratic opposition. In contrast, the Chairman of the SPDC, Than Shwe and his deputy, General Maung Aye, the number 2 shall apply in the state, as a hardliner and opponents of democratization in Myanmar.
The Office of the Prime Minister is - in contrast to democratic systems - provided with very limited powers. Khin Nyunt addition could as leader of the feared intelligence rely only on low support in their own country, whereas members of the armed forces have a broad base. Khin Nyunt other hand, is considered as a pupil General Ne Win, who exercised still significant influence on politics in the country in 2002 until his internment, and could thus meanwhile Protegierung solidify his power.
Deposed as prime minister
On the evening of October 18, 2004 Khin Nyunt was deposed as prime minister by the junta alleged corruption and placed under house arrest. After observers think this was the result of a planned position of the cold unloved pragmatist. The official reason, he had his office " for health reasons " given up, is a euphemism to hide the real reasons for the removal of a public official. After a month earlier, on September 18, the already regarded as a close ally Foreign Minister Win Aung his office had been removed, the Hawks had finally prevailed within the regime.
With the new appointments to the post of Prime Minister by the the head of state is regarded as loyal Lieutenant General Soe Win, the top management, presented now closed. The prospect of a rapprochement with the democratic opposition had vanished.
In the land of Khin Nyunt was the dismissal received with relief, as this marked the end of the working of unloved intelligence meant, which was dissolved in the following weeks.
Family
Khin Nyunt is with the doctor Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe (* October 6, 1940 ) married, the various offices held in state institutions for women's issues. Most recently, she was, among other chairman of the State " Myanmar Women's Affairs Federation ", an office which has traditionally been delegated to the wife of the Prime Minister.
Khin Nyunt Khin Win Shwe and Dr. have a daughter, Thin Le Le Win, and two sons, Lieutenant Colonel Zaw Naing Oo and Dr. Ye Naing the businessman Win, the Internet portal Bagan Cybertech led to the fall of Khin Nyunt. The latter have the parents in 1998 publicly - through an advertisement in the Journal The New Light of Myanmar - disinherited, allegedly because of his marriage to a Singaporean.
Fate
The fate of Khin Nyunt and his family after his overthrow long time there was only speculation. On 5 July 2005, he was taken to Rangoon before a special tribunal in the notorious Insein Prison. Previously, he had obviously been under house arrest. The court sentenced Khin Nyunt on 21 July 2005 for a total of eight charges, including allegations of corruption, to 44 years probation. On the same day the judgments against Zaw Naing Oo and his sons Dr. Ye Naing Win were announced. Unlike her father, she received significantly higher prison sentences of 68 and 51 years. In April 2005, his son-in- Tin Htut was convicted of economic crimes. Whether Dr Daw Khin Win Shwe was held accountable, is unclear. Sure seems to be that she followed her husband's Insein prison. According to a message, the exile organization "The Irrawaddy " Khin Nyunt and are his wife and other family members under house arrest in Rangoon, but in March 2008 he was reportedly loosened.
In January 2012, Khin Nyunt was released from his house arrest. Accompanied this with the release of nearly 600 political prisoners.