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Than Shwe

Military · Politician · Sanctioned entity

Than Shwe is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Tanas Šve · Than Shwe · Than Šwei · Ταν Σουέ · Тан Шве · 9 more...				[sources]
Other name	General Shwe · General Sênior Than Shwe · General Than · General Than Shwe · General U Shwe · 34 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1933-02-02				[sources]
Place of birth	Kyaukse				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Myanmar (Burma)				[sources]
Country	Myanmar (Burma)				[sources]
First name	Than				[sources]
Keywords	National government				[sources]
Last name	Shwe				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q202553				[sources]
Position	Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Myanmar (1992-2011) · President of Myanmar (1992-2011) · Prime Minister of Myanmar (1992-2003) · State Peace and Development Council (1992-2011)				[sources]
Education	M.V. Frunze Military Academy · Officers Training School, Bahtoo				[sources]
Religion	Buddhism · Theravāda				[sources]
Ethnicity	Bamar				[sources]
Modified on	2024-05-20				[sources]
Last changed	2024-05-26	Last checked	2024-05-28	First seen	2022-07-15

Former Burmese military leader, President of Myanmar and Prime Minister of Myanmar

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-05-02

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
President of Myanmar	1992-04-23	2011-03-30
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Myanmar	1992-04-23	2011-03-30
State Peace and Development Council	1992-04-23	2011-03-30

Sanctions
Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Global Affairs Canada	Myanmar (Burma / Birmanie)	-	-

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ca-sema-2-1-mm-than-shwe · ca-sema-burma-2-1

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