Ohn Thwin Explained

Brigadier General Ohn Thwin (Burmese: အုန်းသွင်; 1970 — 24 September 2022) was a Burmese military officer and diplomat. After retiring from the army, he served as Myanmar's ambassador to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives and South Africa. He was a leading member of the Myanmar War Veterans Organization.[1] He graduated from the 15th intake of the Defense Services Academy.[2] It was said that he was the mentor of Vice Senior General Soe Win.[3]

On 24 September 2022, he was shot dead, along with his son-in-law Ye Tayza, a former army captain, by anti-regime urban guerrilla fighters in Yangon, becoming the highest-ranking junta target killed by resistance groups. He was accused of supporting the junta and encouraging the military to kill people who were against the coup.[4] [5] The military council announced in October that it had arrested 10 individuals responsible for Ohn Thwin's death.[6] The military council has condemned the assassination, calling it a deliberate killing of veterans.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Irrawaddy . The . 2022-09-27 . Retired Myanmar Brigadier General Shot Dead by Yangon Resistance Group . 2023-01-21 . The Irrawaddy . en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20230101145302/https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/retired-myanmar-brigadier-general-shot-dead-by-yangon-resistance-group.html. January 1, 2023.
  2. Web site: Irrawaddy . The . 2022-12-27 . Myanmar Regime Leaders and Senior USDP Figures Hold Yangon Reunion . 2023-01-21 . The Irrawaddy . en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20221227113440/https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-leaders-and-senior-usdp-figures-hold-yangon-reunion.html. December 27, 2022.
  3. Web site: At least 5 former military officers killed by Myanmar armed opposition since November . 2023-01-21 . Radio Free Asia . en. https://web.archive.org/web/20230121193756/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/assassinations-10072022192157.html. January 21, 2023.
  4. Web site: Beyond the Headlines: Karen resistance alliance overruns Myanmar army base, urban guerrilla forces strike Yangon junta targets . 2023-01-21 . Myanmar NOW . en. https://web.archive.org/web/20230121192810/https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/beyond-the-headlines-karen-resistance-alliance-overruns-myanmar-army-base-urban-guerrilla. January 21, 2023.
  5. Web site: သေနတ်ဖြင့် ပစ်ခတ်ခံခဲ့ရသည့် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အုန်းသွင်(ငြိမ်း) ၏ နေအိမ်ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် မြင်ကွင်း . 2023-01-21 . Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight . my . 2022-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220927050549/https://www.mizzimaburmese.com/article/115999 . live .
  6. Web site: Myanmar junta claims to have captured guerrilla assassins of retired army officer . 2023-01-21 . Myanmar NOW . en. https://web.archive.org/web/20230121193759/https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-junta-claims-to-have-captured-guerrilla-assassins-of-retired-army-officer. January 21, 2023.
  7. Web site: အငြိမ်းစားဗိုလ်ချုပ်အုန်းသွင်ကို လုပ်ကြံမှုအပေါ် စစ်ကောင်စီရှုတ်ချ . 2023-01-21 . ဗီြအိုေအ . my. https://web.archive.org/web/20230121194442/https://burmese.voanews.com/a/အုန္းသါင္-ohn-thwin-assisnation-ပစ္သတ္ခံရ-ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္အုန္းသြင္-ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္/6762091.html. January 21, 2023.

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