Thet Naing Win | |
Native Name Lang: | my |
Order: | Minister of Border Affairs |
Term Start: | February 2013 |
Term End: | 13 August 2015[1] |
Predecessor: | Thein Htay |
Successor: | Kyaw Swe |
Order5: | General Secretary of the |
Office5: | Union Solidarity and Development Party |
Term Start5: | 23 August 2016 |
Predecessor5: | Tin Naing Thein |
Birth Place: | Maubin, Irrawaddy Division, Burma |
Nationality: | Burmese |
Party: | Union Solidarity and Development Party |
Branch: | Myanmar Army |
Rank: | Lieutenant General |
Awards: | is not set --> |
Lieutenant General Thet Naing Win (Burmese: သက်နိုင်ဝင်း) is a Lieutenant General in the Myanmar Army. He was the Minister of Border Affairs, having been appointed by Thein Sein in February 2013, to replace Thein Htay, who returned to the Ministry of Defence.[2]
Thet Naing Win was born on 22 July 1955 in Maubin, Irrawaddy Division, Burma.[3] After obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Mawlamyine, he joined and attended OTS intake 56.[4] He later earned a Master of Arts degree in defence too.[3]
Thet Naing Win served as the chief of the Defense Ministry's Bureau of Special Operations from 2010 to 2013. Before that, he was commander of the Southeastern Regional Command (Mon State) in the 2000s. Thet Naing Win on August 23 was elected General Secretary of the Union Solidarity and Development Party, preceded by Tin Naing Thein, former Minister of the President's Office of Myanmar and retired brigadier general. replacing former president Thein Sein.[5]