Senior general (Myanmar)

Senior general
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး
Army, navy and air force insignia
Star plate
Country Myanmar
Service branch Myanmar Army
 Myanmar Navy
 Myanmar Air Force
Formation18 March 1990
Next lower rankVice-senior general

Senior general (Burmese: ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး, romanized: builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ) is the highest rank in the Tatmadaw (Myanmar's Armed Forces), only held by the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (CinCDS). Since 2011, an officer appointed as CinCDS has to be quickly promoted one higher rank every year until he get the rank of Senior general.[citation needed]

An officer holding the rank of Senior general can wear any uniform from all the branches.[1][2]

History

In 1990, the Myanmar Armed Forces underwent structural changes, during which Commander-in-Chief General Saw Maung elevated himself to the rank of Senior General on 18 March 1990, becoming the first person to hold this rank.[3] Than Shwe was subsequently promoted directly from the rank of General to Senior General on 23 April 1993.[4] He served in this position until his retirement on 30 March 2011.[5] In March 2013, Min Aung Hlaing was promoted to Senior General from his prior role as Vice-senior general.[6][7]

List of rank holders

No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of service Notes Ref.
Promoted Retired Time serving
1 Saw Maung
(1928–1997) 		18 March 1990 24 April 1992 2 years, 37 days Promoted directly from General[8] [3][8]
2 Than Shwe
(born 1933) 		23 April 1993 30 March 2011 17 years, 341 days Promoted directly from General [8]
3 Min Aung Hlaing
(born 1956) 		March 2013 – 11 years, 9 months Promoted from Vice-senior general [9][10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Fleet Exercise-2020 conducted with involvement of attack submarine Minye Theinkhathu of Tatmadaw (Navy) to enhance defence prowess of State
  2. ^ Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing receives a model plane from Gen. Maung Maung Kyaw in 2019. | OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT WEBSITE OF SENIOR GEN. MIN AUNG HLAING / VIA REUTERS
  3. ^ a b Mya Win (1991). တပ်မတော် ခေါင်းဆောင်များ သမိုင်း အကျဉ်း (၁၉၄၂ ခုနှစ်မှ ၁၉၉၀ ပြည့်နှစ်အထိ) [A Brief History of Tatmadaw's Leaders (1942 to 1990)] (in Burmese). Yangon: News and Periodical Enterprise. pp. 86–87.
  4. ^ Joshua Norman (2 June 2011). "The world's enduring dictators: Than Shwe, Myanmar (Burma)". CBS News.
  5. ^ "Burma's Than Shwe 'remains senior general'". BBC News. 31 August 2010.
  6. ^ "As the country prepared to transition to civilian rule, Than Shwe retired from the military. He passed over higher-ranking or more experienced officers in 2011 to select Min Aung Hlaing to succeed him as commander in chief; Min Aung Hlaing also became a general that year. He was made vice senior general in 2012 and senior general in 2013". Britannica.
  7. ^ "Min Aung Hlaing Appointed Vice-Senior General". The Irrawaddy. 3 April 2012.
  8. ^ a b c "(၇၆)နှစ်မြောက် တပ်မတော်နေ့အထိမ်းအမှတ်အဖြစ် ခေတ်အဆက်ဆက်တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင် ခဲ့ကြသည့် ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်၊ တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်(အငြိမ်းစား) များ၏ အမှတ်တရရုပ်တုများ ဖွင့်ပွဲအခမ်းအနားကျင်းပပြုလုပ်" [As a commemoration for the 76th anniversary of Armed Forces Day, the opening ceremony for memorial statues of those who served through successive periods as Chief-of-Staff and Commander-in-Chief (now retired), was held.]. Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (in Burmese). 25 March 2021.
  9. ^ ကြေးမုံသတင်းစာ (၂၈.၃.၂၀၁၃) (The Mirror Newspaper (28.3.2013)) (in Burmese)
  10. ^ ကြေးမုံသတင်းစာ (၂၅.၃.၂၀၁၃) (The Mirror Newspaper (25.3.2013)) (in Burmese)