Zaw Min | |
Native Name Lang: | my |
Order: | Minister for Electric Power-1 of Myanmar |
Term Start: | 30 March 2011 |
Term End: | 28 August 2012 |
Successor: | Khin Maung Soe |
Order2: | Member of the Pyithu Hluttaw |
Constituency2: | Magway Township |
Majority2: | 106,900 (68.87%)[1] |
Term Start2: | 31 January 2011 |
Term End2: | 30 March 2011 |
Predecessor2: | Constituency established |
Successor2: | Myint Thein (NLD) |
Party: | Union Solidarity and Development Party |
Birth Date: | 30 October 1951 |
Birth Place: | Pegu, Burma |
Nationality: | Burmese |
Spouse: | Khin Mi Mi |
Allegiance: | Myanmar |
Branch: | Myanmar Army |
Serviceyears: | -2010 |
Rank: | Colonel |
Zaw Min (Burmese: ဇော်မင်း) was the Minister for Electric Power-1 of Myanmar (Burma).[2] A retired Colonel in the Myanmar Army,[2] he resigned his ministerial position 28 August 2012.[3]
In May 1998, Colonel Zaw Min landed on Christie Island and found 59 people living there to gather wood and bamboo, in violation of Burmese law. Senior General Than Shwe ordered them to be "eliminated" and all were subsequently murdered by Zaw Min's soldiers. Several days later, the 22-man crew of a Thai fishing boat that strayed into Burmese waters were also executed and their bodies buried on Christie Island.[4] [5]
He is married to Khin Mi Mi.[6]