Win Aung

Win Aung ( Burmese ဝင်း အောင်) (born February 28, 1944 in Dawei (now Tavoy ), Myanmar ; † November 4, 2009 in Rangoon ) was a Burmese politician. From November 14, 1998 to September 18, 2004, Win Aung was Foreign Minister of the military regime in Rangoon.

Up until his release, Win Aung was one of the few civilians in the Burmese military junta and served only in the lower rank of the country's military intelligence service for more than 20 years before his active political career.

In 1988 he became Ambassador of Burma to the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1995 Ambassador to Great Britain . In 1998 he succeeded Foreign Minister Ohn Gyaw, who was driven out of office. Under the pseudonym Sithu Nyein Aye , he occasionally wrote religious and political articles for the state paper The New Light of Myanmar .

Win Aung was regarded as a moderate and close confidante of the long-time head of the secret service and, most recently, Prime Minister Khin Nyunt . Like the latter, according to observers, he became a victim of efforts to consolidate power by the hardliners around Head of State Generalissimo Than Shwe and General Maung Aye . His successor in the Foreign Minister's office was Major General Nyan Win .

Win Aung was married to Daw San Yon. They have a daughter and two sons, Su Nyein Aye and Thaung Su Nyein.

For a long time, nothing was known about the fate of Win Aung and his family since the impeachment. According to information from family circles he was arrested in October 2005 in the State of Insein prison in Rangoon, where in January 2006 by a special tribunal sentenced for abuse of office to seven years in prison. Only the imposition of a prison sentence was officially confirmed on April 9, 2006. Win Aung died of a brain haemorrhage on the morning of November 4, 2009 in Insein Prison .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Irrawaddy: A Victim of the Junta's Dog-Eat-Dog World
2. Jump up ↑ The Irrawaddy: Junta Removes Foreign Minister, Deputy in Cabinet Reshuffle
3. ↑ Narinjara News: Myanmar's former foreign minister sentenced to seven-year jail term  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.