About Tin Sein
Lived 1926 – 2020 (aged 93–94). Tin Sein was a civil servant.
Major General Tin Sein (, 22 February 1927 – 15 August 2020) was a Burmese military official and major general in the Myanmar Army. He has served as Deputy Minister of Defence of Myanmar under Ne Win's cabinet.
In 1979, he was promoted to major general in the Myanmar Army and served as a military regional command. He took on the role of the first minister in the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, which was the first to be established in Myanmar's civil sector. In 1983, he retired from the military and was appointed as the Burmese ambassador to Vietnam.
Tin Sein died on 15 August 2020.
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Who was Tin Sein?
Burmese military official (b. 1926)
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Tin Sein was born in 1926 in Yangon.
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Tin Sein died on 15 August 2020.
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Tin Sein was a civil servant.
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