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Who is president Min Aung Hlaing? Former general consolidating Myanmar military’s grip on power

In February of 2021, Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing wrested power from the elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and effectively plunged the Southeast Asian...

Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing: The general who made himself president

Min Aung Hlaing’s shift from junta chief to the head of an administration with a civilian veneer comes after an election that analysts said was designed by the military to maintain...

Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing: The general who made himself president

Min Aung Hlaing’s shift from junta chief to the head of an administration with a civilian veneer comes after an election that analysts said was designed by the military to maintain...

Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing elected as president

Myanmar's Min Aung Hlaing: The general who made himself president

The 69-year-old general, who has ruled Myanmar since a 2021 coup that triggered a civil war, was elected president in a parliamentary vote.

Min Aung Hlaing elected Myanmar president despite international criticism

Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing elected as President

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing elected president by pro-military parliament

Min Aung Hlaing's transition from top general to civilian president follows a lopsided election in December and January that was won in a landslide by an army-backed party and deri...

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing elected president by pro-military parliament

Min Aung Hlaing's transition from top general to civilian president follows a lopsided election in December and January that was won in a landslide by an army-backed party and deri...

Myanmar Junta Chief Ascends to President, Five Years After Coup

U Min Aung Hlaing’s elevation to the civilian post is the conclusion of elections in the country, which were stage managed by the military.

Myanmar's coup leader who set off a brutal civil war becomes president

General Min Aung Hlaing has been chosen as the next president by the newly-elected parliament.

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing appointed president after ‘sham’ election

Min Aung Hlaing seized control five years ago and plunged Myanmar into conflict and economic chaosMin Aung Hlaing, the military general who plunged Myanmar into conflict and econom...

Min Aung Hlaing neuer Präsident Myanmars:

Nach dem Rücktritt als Oberbefehlshaber ist Min Aung Hlaing nun Präsident Myanmars. Kritiker sehen darin einen Versuch, seine Macht zu festigen.

From general to Myanmar president: Min Aung Hlaing’s rebrand dismissed as ‘cosmetic’

His makeover from junta chief to president now complete, Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing may seek to tiptoe back into the international fold as a civilian leader. But critics say the cha...

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing elected president by pro-military parliament

Myanmar’s coup leader who set off a brutal civil war becomes president

Myanmar’s military ruler Min Aung Hlaing has been elected president, cementing his grip on power five years after leading a coup that plunged the country into civil war. The 69-yea...

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing elected president by pro-military parliament

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing won a parliamentary vote on Friday to become the country's president, formalizing his grip on political power in the war-torn ‌nation five…

Parlament wählt Min Aung Hlaing: Ex-Junta-Chef wird Präsident von Myanmar

Nach über fünf Jahren Militärdiktatur hat das Parlament in Myanmar den ehemaligen Putschführer Min Aung Hlaing zum Präsidenten gewählt. Der Bürgerkrieg hält an. mehr...

Rights Groups File Genocide Complaint Against Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing

The complaint was accepted by the Attorney General's Office just days after the general was "elected" president by the military-dominated parliament.

Myanmar’s political makeover unmasked by revolutionary reality

After five years of conflict and a tightly controlled election, Myanmar’s junta leader, Min Aung Hlaing, shed his uniform, named himself president and spoke of peace and reconcilia...

Why Myanmar top general’s exit is window dressing to cement military rule

The Myanmar junta’s attempts to place its top man in the country’s highest civilian position have been described by analysts as a “constitutional repackaging of continued military...

Myanmar’s military government rebuffed on peace talks offer

Min Aung Hlaing elected by parliament as president earlier this month after election derided as a sham.

Min Aung Hlaing’s PR pardon a script written in Beijing

On April 17, the first day of the Myanmar New Year, Win Myint walked out of Taungoo Prison. He had been arrested in the small hours of February 1, 2021, the morning the military se...

Myanmar's Min Aung Hlaing takes first foreign tour as leader, with visit to India

The tour comes as Myanmar's new government tries to consolidate its political position regionally, while continuing to wage a brutal civil war.