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Subject: NEWS-Myanmar Ambassador to Japan was dismissed

Myanmar Ambassador to Japan was dismissed
KyodoNews:

[Bangkok, 6th August, 1999] A Myanmar junta high officer told to
Kyodo on 6th August that Kin Maung Thein, Myanmar
Ambassador to Japan, aged 48, had got rid of the post during his
recent temporal stay in Myanmar. The officer explained the
reason of his discharge briefly: "He isn't suitable for diplomat
because he speaks too much.", but refused to comment further
details.

Mr. Khin Maung Thein had been the consul general to Hong Kong
before he was assigned to the Ambassador to Japan in this
January. During his term of service, Brig. General Kyaw Win,
deputy director of Myanmar's defense ministry office of strategic
studies, visited Japan on January, and encountered protests of
Burmese pro-democracy activists in Japan.

His discharge was noticed to him when he come back to Myanmar
in the end of July, but formally, he was treated as handing in the
resignation and being accepted by the authority. He started his
carrier as an officer of Military Intelligence over which General
Khin Nyunt, Secretary-1 of the Council has great influences.
Related source said his straightforward character made Khin Maung Thein
turn to a diplomat.

Japanese Embassy in Yangon had been reported by the junta of his
resignation in the early of August, but the reason not. Japanese
Ambassador to Myanmar is one of the most important posts for the junta,
as much as to Thai, the U.S. or U.K..

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