Senior general (Myanmar)

Senior general (Burmese: ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး) is the highest rank in Myanmar Armed Forces. It is held by the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (CinCDS). Since 2011, a person appointed as CinCDS has to be quickly promoted one higher rank every year until he get the rank of Senior general.

See also: Military ranks of Myanmar

The rank insignia of Senior general is with a big star surrounded by a flower branch and with four small stars. Its rank medal and car insignia show that it is the five-star general rank, and the flag of CinCDS confirms it. The rank of Senior general is two ranks higher than that of a General (a full General), but in terms of stars, the Senior general has only one more star than the General.

The Senior general rank exists in all branches: Myanmar Army, Myanmar Navy and Myanmar Air Force, but all these ranks are to be held by the same person at a time no matter from which branch he was promoted. A person holding the rank of Senior general can wear any uniform from all these branches.[1][2]

Burmese title English title Rank insignia Golden strap
[3]		 Rank medal
[3][4]		 Car insignia
[5][6]		 Flag[6][7][8]
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Senior general
Insignia on
regular uniform		 of Myanmar Army of Myanmar Navy
[1]		 of Myanmar Air Force
[2]

History

In 1990, the Myanmar Armed Forces expanded its structure, and the then Commander-in-Chief General Saw Maung promoted himself to Senior General rank on 18 March 1990.[9] Thus, he became the first person to hold the rank of Senior general.

List of rank holders
No. Photo Name Date of promotion Date of retirement Remark
1 Saw Maung 18 March 1990 [9] 24 April 1992 [10] Promoted directly from General[10]
2 Than Shwe 23 April 1993 [10] 30 March 2011 [10] Promoted directly from General[10]
3 Min Aung Hlaing March 2013[11][12] – Promoted from Vice-senior general

References
  1. Fleet Exercise-2020 conducted with involvement of attack submarine Minye Theinkhathu of Tatmadaw (Navy) to enhance defence prowess of State
  2. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing receives a model plane from Gen. Maung Maung Kyaw in 2019. | OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT WEBSITE OF SENIOR GEN. MIN AUNG HLAING / VIA REUTERS
  3. Message of Greetings from Commander in Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee of Armed Forces Day on 27 March 2020. / Myanmar Digital News
  4. KoKo LinnMaung (23 July 2019). တပ်မတော် ရာထူးအဆင့်အတန်း အင်္ဂလိပ်လိုအခေါ်အဝေါ်များ [Tatmadaw appointment ranks' nomenclature in English]. Facebook (in Burmese and English).
  5. Myanmar's Army Chief General Min Aung Hlaing 2nd-r waves as he leaves a ceremony to mark the 67th anniversary of Armed Forces Day in Myanmar's Capital Naypyitaw, March 27 2012. / Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters
  6. Parade of the 76th Anniversary Armed Forces Day held;Chairman of the State Administration Council Commanderin-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Maha Thray Sithu Min Aung Hlaing delivers address / seniorgeneralminaunghlaing.com.mm
  7. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing addresses the National Defense University via videoconference on January 27. (Photo: True News Information Unit)
  8. Commander in Chief by Zachary Harden, 17 January 2022
  9. Mya Win (1991). တပ်မတော် ခေါင်းဆောင်များ သမိုင်း အကျဉ်း (၁၉၄၂ ခုနှစ်မှ ၁၉၉၀ ပြည့်နှစ်အထိ) [A Brief History of Tatmadaw's Leaders (1942 to 1990)] (in Burmese). Yangon: News and Periodical Enterprise. pp. 86–87.
  10. "(၇၆)နှစ်မြောက် တပ်မတော်နေ့အထိမ်းအမှတ်အဖြစ် ခေတ်အဆက်ဆက်တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင် ခဲ့ကြသည့် ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်၊ တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်(အငြိမ်းစား) များ၏ အမှတ်တရရုပ်တုများ ဖွင့်ပွဲအခမ်းအနားကျင်းပပြုလုပ်" [As a commemoration for the 76th anniversary of Armed Forces Day, the opening ceremony for memorial statues of those who served through successive periods as Chief-of-Staff and Commander-in-Chief (now retired), was held.]. Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (in Burmese). 25 March 2021.
  11. ကြေးမုံသတင်းစာ (၂၈.၃.၂၀၁၃) (The Mirror Newspaper (28.3.2013)) (in Burmese)
  12. ကြေးမုံသတင်းစာ (၂၅.၃.၂၀၁၃) (The Mirror Newspaper (25.3.2013)) (in Burmese)
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