爱华网敏昂中将介绍(待译)
丹瑞大将的得力干将
Than Shwe’s Other RightHand Man
By WAI MOE Friday, September 3, 2010IrrawaddyPublishing Group
如果报告发表的缅甸军政府命令，任命56岁的敏昂中将作为新的三军总司令证实，他将是由缅军西南军区司令部司令升入武装部队的最高职务，追随当年丹瑞大将脚印。
敏昂出生于孟邦直通市。1978年毕业于缅军最高学府国防大学（DSA）第18期，那些知道他的人记忆中描述敏昂脾气和善友好。
毕业后，他服务于第2轻步兵营，陆军主力44机动师。1984年，当他还是一名上尉，他成为国防大学18期第一人获得‘杜雅’称号头衔（英雄）。他在进攻克伦民族联盟大本营米达瓦战役中表现卓著成功。
在80年代末，他在漆瑞中将麾下曾担任主任参谋，漆瑞中将是国防部特战局第二局局长。在此期间，他从三级主任参谋升至二级主任参谋。
据前军事情报官员国防大学18期昂林图称，敏昂后来服务于陆军总司令部特别行动指挥部。。
正是在这个时候，他成为丹瑞的铁杆部下，根据前军事人员忒敏叙述。敏昂在当时的陆军总司令丹瑞麾下担任二级主任参谋。
在90年代初，他被调任驻地勃固省达雅瓦底的步兵第35营营长。他后来被任命为梅缪基地的国防大学首席教官。
90年代后期，他被任命为野战13旅作战处长，负责指挥前线作战。
昂林图称，敏昂与电力一现任部长卓敏上校1998年在印度洋中佳士得岛共同指挥屠杀行动，杀害约80人、包括妇女和儿童。
卓敏上校今年4月辞去军职，负责领导军政府支持的联邦巩固与发展党 。
当时，敏昂军衔上校，担任驻地德林达依省博平的野战13旅旅长。当时昂林图作为一个军事情报人员参加了作战会议，敏昂负责宣读陆军总司令部的处决命令。第二年，敏昂晋升为陆军准将。
1999年，他被调往克伦邦帕安陆军主力22机动师，取代觉督准将，担任师长。几年后，他被晋升为总部在孟邦毛淡棉的东南军区司令，取代敏遂准将。当铁武少将2003年8月成为合作社部部长，敏昂接替他成为总部在伊洛瓦底省勃生的西南军区司令。
在2007年年底，敏昂取代登盛上将担任三军幕僚总长（副官总长），登盛上将任命为总理。
他最新的职位是1992年以来一直由丹瑞担任的三军总司令的位置，正当缅军最高级别进行彻底改革。
在8月31日公布的总部位于伦敦的智库‘经济学人情报部’的一份报告称，缅军改组似乎有两个目的。
第一个“可能迫使老化或失宠的将军们退休吸纳新血、吐故纳新，因为选举本身标志着政治体制的一代层次和结构变化的重要时刻。
“第二，可能更重要的，目的是提拔要培养的接班军官人选，将对选举结果造成表面上平民议会。换句话说，这些变化可能标志着政治消毒和提升的混合产物。”‘经济学人’如是说。
然而，星期四，缅甸国营媒体继续表示丹瑞的军衔及国家和平与发展委员会主席职位，可以视为报道暗示的改变尚未生效。
敏昂提升的显着特点是，西南军区司令总会升到三军高端位置。
丹瑞之外，其他军区司令，包括前他的前任，原来的苏貌大将，他的亲信瑞曼，和现在担任联邦巩固发展党总书记、前少将铁武。
继承敏昂担任西南军区司令的觉遂少将，最近取代耶敏中将，任命为军事安全局局长，根据军方消息来源。
觉遂应为2008年5月在摧毁伊洛瓦底江三角洲地区的纳吉斯风暴灾害中的无能表现而臭名昭著。
丁孟温准将，陆军主力22机动师师长，最近的改组中接替西南军区司令觉遂。
Than Shwe’sOther Right Hand Man
By WAI MOE Friday, September 3,2010
If reports of the Burmese junta’s order appointing Lt-Gen MyintAung, 56, as the new commander in chief of the armed forces areconfirmed, he will be the latest commander of the strategicSouthwest Regional Military Command to take the Tatmadaw’s topposition, following in the footsteps of junta supremo Snr-Gen ThanShwe.
Lt-Gen Myint Aung, the newly appointed commander-in-chief. (Photo:The Irrawaddy)
Myint Aung was born in Thaton, MonState. He graduated from the 18th Intake of the Defense ServicesAcademy (DSA) in 1978, and was described by those who knew himthere as a friendly person.
After graduation, he served inLight Infantry Battalion (LIB) 2, a unit of Light Infantry Division(LID) 44. In 1984, when he was still a captain, he became the onlymember of DSA Intake 18 to receive the high military title of Thurafor his achievement during a successful military offensive onMaethawar, a stronghold of the Karen National Union.
In the late 1980s, he served as aGeneral Staff Officer (GSO) under Lt-Gen Chit Swe, the former chiefof the Bureau of Special Operations-2. During this time, he rosefrom GSO Grade 3 to GSO Grade 2.
He later served at the SpecialOperations Office under the office of the Commander in Chief (Army)in the Ministry of Defense, according to Aung Lynn Htut, a formermilitary intelligence officer who graduated from DSA Intake20.
It was at this time that he formeda closer relationship with Than Shwe, according to Htet Min, aformer military officer. Myint Aung served as a GSO Grade 2 at theWar Office under Than Shwe, who was then the Commander in Chief ofthe Army.
In the early 1990s, he wasreassigned as commander of Infantry Battalion 35 in Thayarwaddy,Pegu Division. He was later named Chief Instructor of the DSA inMaymyo (Pyin Oo Lwin).
Later in the decade, he wasappointed as a tactical operations officer at Military OperationCommand (MOC) 13, which he later went on to command.
Aung Lynn Htut said Myint Aung wasinvolved in a massacre of about 80 people, including women andchildren, on Christie Island in the Indian Ocean in 1998 as theofficer in charge of the operation alongside Col Zaw Min, thecurrent Minister of Electric Power 1, who was ordered to resignfrom his military post in April to lead the junta-backed UnionSolidarity and Development Party (USDP).
At the time, Myint Aung was acolonel serving as commander of MOC 13 in Bokpyin, TenasserimDivision. According to Aung Lynn Htut, who attended thepre-operation meeting as a military intelligence officer, MyintAung read the order of execution from the office of the armycommander in chief. He was promoted to brigadier general later thatyear.
In 1999, he was reassigned tocommand LID 22 in Hpa-an, Karen State, replacing Brig-Gen Kyaw Thu.A few years later, he was promoted to commander of the SoutheastRegional Military Command in Moulmein, Mon State, replacingBrig-Gen Myint Swe. When Maj-Gen Htay Oo became Minister ofCooperatives in August 2003, Myint Aung replaced him as commanderof the Southwest Regional Military Command in Pathein, IrrawaddyDivision.
In late 2007, Myint Aung replacedGen Thein Sein as adjutant general after the latter was named primeminister.
His latest promotion, to theposition of commander in chief of the armed forces, occupied since1992 by Than Shwe, comes amid sweeping changes at the highestlevels of the military hierarchy.
In a report released on Aug. 31,the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a London-based think tank,said that the reported reshuffle appears to serve twopurposes.
The first “may be to forceretirement of ageing or out-of-favor generals to make way for newblood, given that the elections themselves mark an important momentof generational and structural change for politicalhierarchy.
“The second, and probably moreimportant, purpose is to groom favored officers for the ostensiblycivilian parliamentary positions that will be created as a resultof the elections. In other words, the changes probably mark amixture of political culling and promotion,” the EIUsaid.
However, on Thursday, Burma’sstate-run media continued to refer to Than Shwe by his militarytitle and as chairman of the State Peace and Development Council,the official name of the junta, suggesting that the reportedchanges have yet to come into effect.
A notable feature of Myint Aung’spromotion is that it fits a pattern of assigning former commandersof the Southwest Regional Military Command to top position withinthe Tatmadaw.
Besides Than Shwe, other formercommanders of the military region include his close aides Gen ShweMann and ex-Maj-Gen Htay Oo, who now serves as general secretary ofthe USDP.
Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe, who succeededMyint Aung as commander of the Southwest Regional Military Command,was recently appointed head of Military Affairs Security, formerlyknown as the Military Intelligence Service, replacing Lt-Gen YeMyint, according to military sources.
Kyaw Swe is infamous among peoplein the Irrawaddy delta for his failed disaster response to CycloneNargis, which devastated the region in May 2008.
Brig-Gen Tin Maung Win, the formercommander of LID 22, replaced Kyaw Swe as commander of theSouthwest Regional Military Command in the recentreshuffle.
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