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Canonical ID: Q116821851 · Entity type: Person (reference)
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Person:notes | Lieutenant General Nyunt Win Swe has been the Commander of Bureau of Special Operation 4 (BSO 4) since 2023. In that capacity, he commands and controls military forces in the area of Yangon. He was the Commander of the Yangon Region of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) from June 2020 to early 2023. In that capacity, Nyunt Win Swe commanded and controlled military forces in the Yangon Region and oversaw the military tribunals for the Yangon Region. In March 2021, the State Administration Council introduced martial law in Myanmar, transferring executive and judicial power to the head of the relevant regional military commands. By July 2022, military tribunals in the Yangon Region sentenced 119 individuals to death, many of them for political reasons, including four members of the democratic opposition who were executed in the Yangon Region. Additionally, military forces in the Yangon region committed violent acts and killings against peaceful protestors, such as the use of lethal force during anti-junta protests in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar township on 14 March 2021. In his capacities, Nyunt Win Swe is responsible for serious human rights violations, for activities undermining democracy and the rule of law in Myanmar/Burma, as well as for actions that threaten the peace, security and stability of Myanmar/Burma. | ch_seco_sanctions | ch-seco-57489 | ||||