Zaw Myo Tin
| Chief Minister of Kayah State | |
|---|---|
| In office 1 February 2022 – 29 November 2023[1] | |
| President | Myint Swe (acting) |
| Prime Minister | Min Aung Hlaing |
| Preceded by | Khin Maung Oo |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Myanmar |
| Branch/service |  Myanmar Army |
| Rank |  Lieutenant general |
Zaw Myo Tin (Burmese: ဇော်မျိုးတင်) is a Burmese politician who served as chief minister of Kayah State. He is a retired Lieutenant general of Tatmadaw, the armed forces of Myanmar. He served as a legislator of Kayah State Hluttaw, minister of Security and Border Affairs of Kayah State, Commander of Regional Operations Commands (Loikaw), Commander of Naypyitaw Regional Command and Chief of Armed Forces Training.[2]
Career
[edit]Early life
[edit]He attended to Defence Services Academy as part of the 32nd intake.
Military career
[edit]In 2013, he was appointed as Minister of Security and Border Affairs of Kayah State in Khin Maung Oo's first cabinet. He was reappointed as minister in L Phaung Sho's cabinet.[3] In 2017, he was promoted as Brigadier General and became the commander of Regional Operation Command (Loikaw) under the Eastern Regional Command.
Later, he moved to the Office of the Commander in chief of Defence Services in Naypyitaw with the rank Major General. In January 2021, he was appointed as the Commander of the Naypyitaw Regional Command. In September 2021 he was promoted as Lieutenant General and became the chief of Armed Forces Training.[4]
Chief minister
[edit]In January 2022, the conflict between Tatmadaw and local defence forces in Kayah State forcing residents Loikaw district to flee.[5] On 31 January 2022, the incumbent chief minister Khin Maung Oo was dimissied.[6] Zaw Myo Tin retired from his military post and became the head of Kayah State Government on 1 February 2022.[7] Zaw Myo Tin was ousted on 29 November 2023 when anti-junta forces took control of most of the state during Operation 1111.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/juntas-administration-ousted-karenni-state-loikaw-still-war-zone
- ^ "နေပြည်တော်တိုင်းမှူး ဗိုလ်ချုပ် ဇော်မျိုးတင် တပ်မတော် လေ့ကျင့်ရေး အရာရှိချုပ် ဖြစ်လာ".
- ^ "Kayah State Government". President Office. Archived from the original on 20 February 2017.
- ^ "နေပြည်တော် စစ်တိုင်းမှူး အပြောင်းအလဲ ဖြစ်".
- ^ "ကယားတွင် တိုက်ပွဲများကြောင့် စစ်ရှောင် ၁ သိန်း ၇ သောင်းကျော် ရှိလာ".
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၈ / ၂၀၂၂".
- ^ "ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်အဖြစ် ဦးစိုးသိန်းနှင့် ကယားပြည်နယ် ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်အဖြစ် ဦးဇော်မျိုးတင်တို့အား ခန့်အပ်".
- ^ https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/juntas-administration-ousted-karenni-state-loikaw-still-war-zone