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OUSTED SPDC ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER D



Media Release
Date: January 14, 1998
  
                                    
          OUSTED SPDC ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER-LT.GEN. SEIN AUNG 
                             DIES IN RANGOON
                                     
       
On January 9, 1998,Lieutenant-General Sein Aung, a founding member
of the Burmese military's State Law and Order Restoration Council
(SLORC) and an ousted member of the State Peace and Development
Council's (SPDC) Advisory Board, died at Mingaladon military
hospital in the north of Rangoon. 
  
According to informed sources in Rangoon, Lt-Gen. Sein Aung died of
cancer of the colon. He was 68 year old.
  
Lt.-Gen. Sein Aung joined the Burmese army in 1950 and became a
commissioned officer after graduating from class 10 of the
Officers' Training School. He served as the commander of the
Burmese Army's infamous Division 77 and as the commander of the
Northeast Region Military Command.
  
Lt.-Gen. Sein Aung was the head of the Special Operations Bureau-1
before the 1988 democracy uprising. He subsequently became a member
of the SLORC when it was formed in September 1988, and was
appointed Minister of the two ministries of industry. He was later
appointed Minister of Industry-1 after the SLORC's ministerial
reshuffle on January 29, 1992. 
  
With the renaming of the SLORC to the SPDC in November 1997,
Lt.-Gen. Sein Aung was appointed to the 14-member SPDC Advisory
Board. However, on December 10 the Advisory Board was abolished and
Lt.-Gen. Sein Aung lost his position, along with the other 13
generals on the board. 
  
Sources in Rangoon have also told the ABSDF that although Lt.-Gen.
Sein Aung was not included in the arrests of former generals on
charges of corruption, he was being watched by Military Intelli-
gence Service personnel.
  

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