17 Facts About Khin Nyunt

1.

General Khin Nyunt is a Burmese military officer and politician.

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Khin Nyunt held the office of Chief of Intelligence and was Prime Minister of Myanmar from 25 August 2003 until 18 October 2004.

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Khin Nyunt was born on 23 October 1939 in Kyauktan Township, near Rangoon.

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Khin Nyunt is of Burmese Chinese descent; his parents are Hakkas with ancestry from Meixian, Meizhou, Guangdong, China.

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Khin Nyunt graduated from the 25th batch of the Officers Training School, Bahtoo in 1960, after dropping out of Yankin College in the late 1950s.

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The SLORC was renamed as the State Peace and Development Council in 1997, and Khin Nyunt was appointed as its first secretary, a post which he held until his appointment as Prime Minister in August 2003.

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Shortly after Khin Nyunt was appointed as Prime Minister, he announced a seven-point roadmap to democracy; this roadmap was heavily criticized by the Burmese opposition as well as by many foreign governments especially Western ones as it envisaged a permanent military participation in the government.

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8.

Khin Nyunt was instrumental in closing the universities, then reopening them after they had been relocated to remote, ill-equipped campuses where students could no longer organise protests or get a meaningful education.

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On 18 October 2004, in a one-sentence announcement signed by SPDC Chairman Than Shwe, Khin Nyunt was "permitted to retire on health grounds".

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Allegations of Khin Nyunt's corruption were officially made several days later.

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On 5 July 2005, Khin Nyunt was tried by a Special Tribunal inside Insein prison near Rangoon on various corruption charges.

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In December 2010, another 16-minute video of Khin Nyunt meeting with the Chief of Police Khin Yi and other senior police officers was circulated on YouTube.

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Khin Nyunt's brother-in-law was Than Nyein, a long-term political prisoner under military regime and founder of National Democratic Force Party, who died of lung cancer in Yangon on 21 May 2014.

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Khin Nyunt was released from house arrest on 13 January 2012 by the order of President Thein Sein.

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Khin Nyunt opened a coffee shop, art gallery and a souvenir shop which sells items to tourists, such as wood carvings.

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Khin Nyunt is married to Khin Win Shwe, a medical doctor, and has a daughter, Thin Le Le Win, two sons, Lieutenant Colonel Zaw Naing Oo and Dr Ye Naing Wynn, a doctor and entrepreneur who owns Aroma Gourmet Concepts Ltd, a pioneer of coffee culture in Myanmar since 1998 and Bagan Cybertech, one of the earliest internet service providers in Myanmar, as well as various cafe, apparel and sportswear chains.

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Khin Nyunt reportedly has seven grandchildren, some of which are doctors and a few are said to be studying overseas.