Maung Maung Aye (Burmese: မောင်မောင်အေး; pronounced [maʊɰ̃ maʊɰ̃ʔ]; born 1962) is the 3rd rank general in the Army. He is currently serving as the Coordinating Commander (Army, Navy, Air Force).[1] He is also a member of the National Planning and Administration Council.[2] Prior to that, he was the Chief Training Officer of the Army.[3][4]
Maung Maung Aye | |
|---|---|
မောင်မောင်အေး | |
 Maung Maung Aye in 2023 | |
| Member of the State Administration Council | |
| Assumed office 25 September 2023 | |
| Chairman | Senior General Min Aung Hlaing |
| Chief of General Staff (Army, Navy, Air Force | |
| Assumed office 1 February 2021 | |
| Preceded by | General Mya Tun Oo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1962 Myanmar (formerly Burma) |
| Alma mater | Defence Services Academy |
| Occupation | Army general |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Myanmar |
| Branch/service |  Myanmar Army |
| Years of service | 1980-present |
| Rank |  General |
| Unit | Ministry of Defence |
Military career
editHe is an officer who graduated from Defence Military Academy No. 25 cadet course. He has the same number as General Mya Tun Oo. He enlisted in the army with gazetted number 17580. When he was a colonel, he was in the operations command headquarters (6) SKA-6. Nay Pyi Taw, He was the head of Pinmana's headquarters. In August 2010, he was promoted to the rank of general and became the commander of Nay Pyi Taw military headquarters. In August 2015, he became a lieutenant general and served as the chief training officer of the Tatmadaw. During the 2021 Myanmar military coup, he succeeded General Mya Tun Oo as the Coordinating Commander (Army, Navy, Air Force).[5] On September 25, 2023, Lieutenant General Soe Htut and Lieutenant General Moe Myint Tun were removed from their positions and he became a new member of the Council when the State Administration Council was reorganized.[6] After more than 2 and a half years after the military coup, he became a council member as a top military figure.[7][8] He was also appointed as the head of the Reserve Force Calling Central Committee, which was formed on February 16, 2024.[9]
Sanctions
editAs a leading figure in the 2021 Myanmar military coup, Western countries including the United States and the European Union have sanctioned him.[10][11][12]
References
edit- ^ "စစ်ကောင်စီတွင် တာဝန်အရှိဆုံး စစ်ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီးများ". Myanmar NOW. 6 May 2021.
- ^ "ညှိနှိုင်းကွပ်ကဲရေးမှူး (ကြည်း၊ ရေ၊ လေ) ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး မောင်မောင်အေး ရုရှားဖက်ဒရေးရှင်းနိုင်ငံ၊ Vladivostok မြို့၌ ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်သည့် အာဆီယံအပေါင်းအကြမ်းဖက်မှု တန်ပြန်တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးဆိုင်ရာ ကျွမ်းကျင်လုပ်ငန်းအဖွဲ့၏ မြေပြင်လက်တွေ့လေ့ကျင့်ခန်း (Field Training Exercise) သို့တက်ရောက်". MOI Myanmar. 17 February 2024.
- ^ "နေပြည်တော်တိုင်းမှူး ဗိုလ်ချုပ် ဇော်မျိုးတင် တပ်မတော် လေ့ကျင့်ရေး အရာရှိချုပ် ဖြစ်လာ". The Irrawaddy. 1 September 2021.
- ^ "Shar Htoo Waw Technology Team Took Credit for Assault on MICC2 Hall During Wedding of Gen Maung Maung Aye's Son in Naypyidaw". Narinjara News. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
- ^ "ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး မောင်မောင်အေး ကြည်း၊ ရေ၊ လေ ညှိနှိုင်းကွပ်ကဲရေးမှူး ဖြစ်လာ". The Irrawaddy. 4 September 2021.
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၈၅ / ၂၀၂၃ ၁၃၈၅ ခုနှစ်၊ တော်သလင်းလဆန်း ၁၁ ရက် (၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်၊ စက်တင်ဘာလ ၂၅ ရက်) နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း". CINCDS Myanmar. 25 September 2023.
- ^ {{Cite news |date=27 September 2023 |title=နှစ်နှစ်ကျော်အတွင်း စစ်ကောင်စီဝင် ၁၁ ဦးအထိ ဖယ်ရှားခံရ |url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/articles/c72rlp98pr0o |work=[[BBC News][}}
- ^ 2/junta-positions-changes-09262023072444.html "စစ်ကောင်စီအဖွဲ့ အပြောင်းအလဲ အဖွဲ့တွင်းမတည်ငြိမ်မှုနဲ့ အက်ကွဲမှုကိုပြသ". Radio Free Asia. 26 September 2023.
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- ^ "Maung Maung Aye". OpenSanctions. 17 February 2024.
- ^ "Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Myanmar/Burma". Sanctions Map EU.
- ^ "Treasury Prohibits Financial Services with Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise and Imposes Additional Sanctions on Burma Military Regime Officials and Supporters". U.S. Department of Treasury. 31 October 2023.