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Brigadier General
[1]
Thray Sithu

Aung Shwe

အောင်ရွှေ

President of the
National League
for Democracy

In office
22 December
[2]
1990 – 2010

Commander of
Southern
Command

In office

1954–1962

Commander of
Northern
Command

In office
 1957–?

Member-elect of
Pyithu Hluttaw
(1990)
Personal details
Military service
Brigadier General Aung Shwe (Burmese: အောင်ရွှေ ; 19 May
1919 – 13 August 2017) was a Burmese politician and a member
of General Ne Win's Burma Rifles rising to Brigadier General. He
was one of the founders and former President of the National
League for Democracy who took charge of the party when Aung
San Suu Kyi and Tin Oo were under house arrest in the early
1990s and 2000s.[2][3][4][5]

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● Early life and education
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● Military and governmental career
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● Political career
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● Personal life and death
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● 5
● References
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Early life and education[edit]

Aung Shwe was born in Rangoon, British Burma to Phoe Con
and Daw Thein. He graduated in arts from Rangoon University in
1940. From 1942 to 1945, he served under the leadership of
General Aung San's Burma Independence Army, Burma Defence
Army and Patriotic Burmese Forces during the Japanese
occupation of Burma. Aung Shwe joined the Burmese army in
1945.

Military and governmental career[edit]

Aung Shwe as Ambassador to Australia, 1961

Aung Shwe played a role in the 1958 caretaker government and

served as a high-ranking military officer led by General Ne Win.
During this time, he also served as the Commander of the
Southern Regional Command from 1955 to 1961 and Northern
Regional Command in 1957.[6]

Aung Shwe was a member of the Burma Socialist Party before

the 1962 Burmese coup d'état. He was forced to retire from
Tatmadaw in 1961 after a public disagreement with General Ne
Win, on the military's long-term role in government.

He then served as Burmese ambassador to France, Australia,

Egypt, Spain and New Zealand from 1961 to 1975. Subsequent
to his posting in Australia, He served in Egypt and then in Paris
until his retirement from government service in 1975. He settled
in Rangoon, where in 1988 public demonstrations erupted that
eventually spread across the country. The people of Burma were
tired of the authoritarian rule of the Burma Socialist Programme
Party.[7]

Political career[edit]
Aung Shwe founded National League for Democracy Party with
Tin Oo and secretary-general, Aung San Suu Kyi on 27
September 1988. He was a leading member of the NLD and also
chairman of the Patriotic Old Comrades' League (POCL) in 1988.

He was elected as the MP for Yangon Region Mayangon

Township Constituency No. 1 in the 1990 Myanmar general
election. He was also chairman of the Committee Representing
the People's Parliament (CRPP), a group of successful
candidates in the 1990 elections.[8][9]

Personal life and death[edit]

He died on 13 August 2017 at Victoria Hospital in Yangon,
Myanmar. He is survived by his three sons and three daughters
namely Aung Than Shwe, Than Pe Shwe, Aung Myint Shwe,
Yuzana Shwe, Myinzu Shwe and Sabai Shwe.[10][11]

References[edit]
● ^ "ဗိုလ်မးှူ ချုပ် သရေစည်သူ အောင်ရွှေ (၁၉၁၈-၂ဝ၁၇)". BBC
Burmese. 14 August 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
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● "Myanmar ruling party's former president U Aung Shwe dies".
Xinhua News Agency. 2017-08-14. Archived from the original on
August 14, 2017.
● ^ "Funeral of NLD ex-chairman to be held on August 17". Eleven
Media Group. 2017-08-16. Archived from the original on
2017-08-16. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
● ^ "The Khaki Guardians of The NLD". The Irrawaddy. 2017-08-15.
Retrieved 2017-08-16.
● ^ Nanda (16 August 2017). "ထိုင်ခုံပူပေါ်က ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ". 7Day News.
Retrieved 16 August 2017.
● ^ "Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi". Assistance
Association for Political Prisoners. Archived from the original on
2017-08-14.
● ^ "NLD Secretary U Lwin Suffers Stroke, Chairman Aung Shwe
also Ill". The Irrawaddy News. 2008-10-22.
● ^ "NLD ဥက္ကဌဟောင်း ဦးအောင်ရွှေ ကွယ်လန ွ "် . VOA Burmese News
(in Burmese). 2017-08-13.
● ^ "ကွယ်လန ွ သ
် ူ ဦးအောင်ရွှေ အပေါ် လွှတ်တော် အမတ်ဟောင်းတချ ို့ရဲ ့
သုံးသပ် ချက်". VOA Burmese News (in Burmese). 2017-08-13.
● ^ "NLD ပါတီ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌဟောင်း ဦးအောင်ရွှေ ကွယ်လန ွ "် . BBC News (in
Burmese). 2017-08-13.
● ^ Mizzima News Former NLD chairman U Aung Shwe passes
away

Categories:

● 1919 births
● 2017 deaths
● Burmese military personnel
● Burmese soldiers
● Burmese Buddhists
● University of Yangon alumni
● People from Yangon
● National League for Democracy politicians
● Burmese prisoners and detainees

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