Zaw Myo Tin

Zaw Myo Tin (Burmese: ဇော်မျိုးတင်) is a Burmese politician and current chief minister of Kayah State. He is a retired Lieutenant general of Tatmadaw. He served as a MP of Kayah State Hluttaw, minister of Security and Border Affairs of Kayah State, Commander of Regional Operations Commands (Loikaw), Commander of Naypyitaw Regional Command and Chief of Armed Forces Training.[1]

His Excellency
Zaw Myo Tin
ဇော်မျိုးတင်
Chief Minister of Kayah State
Assumed office
1 February 2022
PresidentMyint Swe (acting)
Prime MinisterMin Aung Hlaing
Preceded byKhin Maung Oo
Military service
Allegiance Myanmar
Branch/service Myanmar Army
Rank Lieutenant general

Career

Early life

He attended to Defence Services Academy as part of the 32nd intake.

Military career

In 2013, he was appointed as Minister of Security and Border Affairs of Kayah State in Khin Maung Oo's first cabinet. He was reappointed as minister in L Phaung Sho's cabinet.[2] In 2017, he was promoted as Brigadier General and became the commander of Regional Operation Command (Loikaw) under the Eastern Regional Command.

Later, he moved to the Office of the Commander in chief of Defence Services in Naypyitaw with the rank Major General. In January 2021, he was appointed as the Commander of the Naypyitaw Regional Command. In September 2021 he was promoted as Lieutenant General and became the chief of Armed Forces Training.[3]

Chief minister

In January 2022, the conflict between Tatmadaw and local defence forces in Kayah State forcing residents Loikaw district to flee.[4] On 31 January 2022, the incumbent chief minister Khin Maung Oo was dimissied.[5] Zaw Myo Tin retired from his military post and became the head of Kayah State Government on 1 February 2022.[6]

References
  1. "နေပြည်တော်တိုင်းမှူး ဗိုလ်ချုပ် ဇော်မျိုးတင် တပ်မတော် လေ့ကျင့်ရေး အရာရှိချုပ် ဖြစ်လာ".
  2. "Kayah State Government". President Office. Archived from the original on 20 February 2017.
  3. "နေပြည်တော် စစ်တိုင်းမှူး အပြောင်းအလဲ ဖြစ်".
  4. "ကယားတွင် တိုက်ပွဲများကြောင့် စစ်ရှောင် ၁ သိန်း ၇ သောင်းကျော် ရှိလာ".
  5. "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၈ / ၂၀၂၂".
  6. "ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်အဖြစ် ဦးစိုးသိန်းနှင့် ကယားပြည်နယ် ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်အဖြစ် ဦးဇော်မျိုးတင်တို့အား ခန့်အပ်".
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