Tun Tun Naung

Tun Tun Naung (Burmese: ထွန်းထွန်းနောင်; born 30 April 1963[1]) is a Burmese military officer and incumbent Minister of Border Affairs of Myanmar.[2] Tun Tun Naung is a career soldier, and currently holds the rank of Lieutenant General. Since he is a Union Minister of Border Affairs, he is also a member of the Union Government and National Defence and Security Council.[3][4]

Tun Tun Naung
ထွန်းထွန်းနောင်
Union Minister of Border Affairs
Assumed office
1 February 2022
Preceded byYe Aung
Personal details
Born30 April 1963 (1963-04-30) (age 60)
Alma materDefence Services Academy
Military service
Branch/serviceTatmadaw
RankLieutenant General

Career

Tun Tun Naung was born in 1963 and graduated from the 25th intake of Defence Service Academy. His colleagues from 25th intake are General Mya Tun Oo, member of SAC and Lieutenant-General Aung Lin Dwe, Secretary of SAC.

In 2010, he became the commander of 88th Light Infantry Division with the rank of Colonel. Later he became the commander of Eastern Central Command. In 2012 he became the commander of Northern Command with the rank Brigadier General and became the commander of Yangon Regional Command with the rank of Major General in 2014.[5] In August 2015, he became the Chief of Bureau of Special Operations No (1), one of the high-level field units of Myanmar Army. In 2020 December, he was moved to Tatmadaw reserved force and became a member of Peace Negotiation Committee of Tatmadaw.[6][7]

After 2021 coup, Tun Tun Naung was appointed as Union Minister for Ministry of Border Affairs. He is also a member of National Defence and Security Council.[2][8]

References
  1. "Burma-related Designations; Counter Terrorism Designations". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  2. "အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ဝင် ဝန်ကြီးစာရင်းများထုတ်ပြန်".
  3. "National Defence and Security Council (1/2022)".
  4. "Republic of the Union of Myanmar National Defence and Security Council Announcement No 1/2022".
  5. "find a new Commander in Chief of Tatmadaw".
  6. "ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး ရာပြည့် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ ရုံး ဝန်ကြီး ဖြစ်လာ".
  7. "ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး ၆ ဦး တပ်မတော် အရန်အင်အားသို့ ပြောင်းရွှေ့ ခံရ".
  8. "ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီးများ ပါဝင်သည့် တပ်မတော်၏ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဆွေးနွေးမှု ကော်မတီကို ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်း".
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