Pwint San

Pwint San (Burmese: ပွင့်ဆန်း, also spelt Pwint Hsan; born 13 July 1961 in Rangoon, Burma[1]) is the incumbent Minister of Labour of Myanmar.[2] He served as Minister for Commerce from 3 February 2021 to 19 August 2022 in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état by the Burmese military.[3]

Dr
Pwint San
ပွင့်ဆန်း
Minister of Labour
Assumed office
19 August 2022
PresidentMyint Swe (acting)
Prime MinisterMin Aung Hlaing
Preceded byMyint Kyaing
Minister for Commerce
In office
3 February 2021 – 19 August 2022
PresidentMyint Swe (acting)
Prime MinisterMin Aung Hlaing
Preceded byThan Myint
Succeeded byAung Naing Oo
Personal details
Born13 July 1961 (1961-07-13) (age 62)
Rangoon, Burma
NationalityBurmese
Political partyUnion Solidarity and Development Party
SpouseDr. Nilar Lwin
ChildrenBryan Tun
CabinetMin Aung Hlaing's military cabinet

Career

Pwint San is a medical doctor by training, and later became a businessman.[4] In the 2020 general election, he became a politician of the Burmese military's proxy party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party,[5] and won a seat of Pyithu Hluttaw for Mayangon Township. He later served as a deputy commerce minister during Thein Sein's presidency.[6] He subsequently became a central executive in the USDP.

In the 2015 general election, he ran for House of Representatives seat from Manyangone Township but lost. In the 2020 general election, he ran as a candidate for Mayangone constituency No. 2, representing the Union Solidarity and Development Party but defeated the National League for Democracy candidate by a landslide.[7]

In the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, he was appointed as Minister for Commerce on 3 February 2021. His son, Dr. Bryan Tun, who currently resides in Australia, has publicly disowned his father, stating that he cannot condone his father's association with the military council responsible for the killing of protesters.[8][9]

Sanctions

On 17 May 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury added Pwint San to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list.[10]

On 20 July 2023, the EU countries imposed personal sanctions on San, citing his continued contributions to serious human rights violations in Myanmar as Union Minister of Labour and previously Minister of Commerce in the junta-appointed government. He was accused of abusing his authority powers to target workers associated with various opposition movements, restricting supply of goods within the country and providing economic means to sustain junta's illegal seizure of power.[11]

Personal life

He is married to Dr. Nilar Lwin,[12] and has one son, Bryan Tun, a medical doctor in Australia.[13]

References
  1. "Burma-related Designations; Counter Terrorism Designation Removal". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  2. "Myanmar Junta Announces Cabinet Reshuffle With Slight Changes". Bloomberg News.
  3. "NEWLY APPOINTED UNION MINISTERS: STATE ADMINISTRATION COUNCIL ISSUES ORDER". Myanmar International TV. 2021-02-04.
  4. "Children of the junta: the relatives of Myanmar's military regime living in Australia". the Guardian. 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  5. "Pyidaungsu Hluttaw approves motion condemning sanctions". The Myanmar Times. 2011-04-04. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  6. "Myanmar Junta Rolls Back NLD Reforms, Revives Previous Regime's Plans". The Irrawaddy. 2021-10-12. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  7. "ဦးသိန္းစိန္ အေမရိကန္ခရီး အက်ဳိးရလဒ္". 2022-11-24. Archived from the original on 2022-11-24. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  8. "ဩစတြေးလျ ပြည်ထဲရေးက မြန်မာစစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ဆွေမျိုးများအကြောင်း စုံစမ်း ရှာဖွေနေ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 5 May 2021.
  9. Doherty, Ben; Bucci, Nino; Butler, Ben (7 May 2021). "Children of the junta: the relatives of Myanmar's military regime living in Australia". The Guardian.
  10. "Burma-related Designations; Counter Terrorism Designation Removal". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  11. "L 183 I". Official Journal of the European Union.
  12. "စီးပွားရေးနှင့်ကူးသန်းရောင်းဝယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနကုန်သွယ်ရေးဦးစီးဌာန၏ (၁၀)ကြိမ်မြောက်ဝါဆိုသင်္ကန်းကပ်လှူပူဇော်ပွဲကျင်းပ" (PDF). Commerce Journal (in Burmese). 2015-08-03.
  13. "Outed by online campaign, children of Myanmar junta hounded abroad". Reuters. 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
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