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Than Shwe, also called (since 2011) U Than Shwe, (born February 2, 1933, Kyaukse, Burma [now Myanmar]), Myanmar soldier and politician, leader of the ruling military junta in Myanmar (Burma) from 1992 to 2011.
Than Shwe worked as a postal clerk before joining the army in 1953. For the rest of the decade, he served in the army’s psychological warfare department and participated in counterinsurgency operations against guerrillas of the minority Karen ethnic group. He was promoted to the rank of captain in 1960. Shortly after the military seized power in Burma in a coup d’état in 1962
Explanation;
Than Shwe, also called (since 2011) U Than Shwe, (born February 2, 1933, Kyaukse, Burma [now Myanmar]), Myanmar soldier and politician, leader of the ruling military junta in Myanmar (Burma) from 1992 to 2011.
Than Shwe worked as a postal clerk before joining the army in 1953. For the rest of the decade, he served in the army’s psychological warfare department and participated in counterinsurgency operations against guerrillas of the minority Karen ethnic group. He was promoted to the rank of captain in 1960. Shortly after the military seized power in Burma in a coup d’état in 1962, Than was appointed an instructor at the Central Institute of Political Science.