Ye Yint Aung (general)
Ye Yint Aung | |
|---|---|
ရဲရင့်အောင် | |
| Director of Public Relations and Psychological Warfare of the Myanmar Army | |
| Assumed office 27 March 2026 | |
| Appointed by | National Defence and Security Council |
| Prime Minister | General Nyo Saw |
| Deputy | General Kyaw Swar Lin |
| Leader | Senior General Min Aung Hlaing |
| Preceded by | Major General Zaw Min Tun |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Citizenship | Myanmar |
| Alma mater | Defence Services Academy |
| Occupation | Army general and military officer |
| Website | https://www.moi.gov.mm/moi:eng/ |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Myanmar |
| Branch/service |  Myanmar Army |
| Rank |  Brigadier General |
Brigadier General Ye Yint Aung (Burmese: ရဲရင့်အောင်) is a Burmese army general who currently serves as the Director of Public Relations and Psychological Warfare of the Myanmar Army following his appointment on 27 March 2023 succeeding Major General Zaw Min Tun after he was purged following an investigation. He also serves as a spokesperson for the Myanmar Army and Information Team Leader for the National Defence and Security Council.[1][2]
Military career
Ye Yint Aung began his military career in the Tatmadaw after he was appointed as Director of Public Relations and Psychological Warfare of the Myanmar Army on 27 March 2023, replacing Major General Zaw Min Tun after he was purged following the case.[3][4][5] In this position, he oversees the military's information apparatus, psychological operations, and media relations. He also formerly served in the Tatmadaw True News Information Team and as Military Attaché to Bangladesh.
Following his appointment as director, he became military spokesperson for the Information Team and also for the National Defence and Security Council.[6] He is responsible for managing the Myanmar military's public messaging, handling state media operations, and controlling the official flow of information regarding the military and political affairs. He took over all of these duties after the Myanmar military government purged Major General Zaw Min Tun.[7]
He was also appointed as Deputy Minister of Information of Myanmar on 27 March 2023, alongside his communication and psychological warfare roles.
Ye Yint Aung also presented awards and certificates of honor at the 81st Armed Forces Day Ceremony on 27 March 2026 at Bayinnaung Villa in Naypyidaw. Along with him, General Kyaw Swar Lin, senior Tatmadaw officers from the office of the Commander-in-chief, the Commander of the Naypyidaw Command, officials guest attended the ceremony and led the event.[8]
He also participated and led in increasing friendship and cooperation of the Myanmar military and the Royal Thai Armed Forces to exchange and discuss culture and arts, and led the Myanma Tatmadaw Cultural Team along with other 51 senior official members.[9]
References
- ↑ Irrawaddy, The (8 April 2026). "Chinese Drone Deal Behind Downfall of Myanmar Junta's Chief Propagandist". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Now, Arakan (28 March 2026). "Media reports: Myanmar junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun removed from post". Arakan Now. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Now, Arakan (28 March 2026). "Media reports: Myanmar junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun removed from post". Arakan Now. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Irrawaddy, The (8 April 2026). "Chinese Drone Deal Behind Downfall of Myanmar Junta's Chief Propagandist". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Agency, Yangon Khit Thit News (4 August 2025). "ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး မိုးအောင် ရာထူးမှ ဖြုတ်ပယ် အနားပေးခံရမှုနှင့်အတူ UAB ဘဏ်နှင့် IGE ကုမ္ပဏီ ရှေ့ဆက်ရပ်တည်ရေး မသေချာ မရေရာ ဖြစ်လာပြီး အောင်သောင်း စီးပွားရေးအင်ပါယာ ကျဆုံးခန်းဖြစ်လာနိုင်ဟုဆို". Khit Thit Media. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Irrawaddy, The (8 April 2026). "Chinese Drone Deal Behind Downfall of Myanmar Junta's Chief Propagandist". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ Agency, Yangon Khit Thit News (28 March 2026). "စစ်တပ် နှင့် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်၏ ပြန်ကြားရေး ဇော်မင်းထွန်း ပြည်သူ့ဆက်ဆံရေးနှင့် စိတ်ဓာတ်စစ်ဆင်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ ၏ ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးရာထူးမှ အနားပေးခံရပြီး ပြန်ကြားရေးဒုဝန်ကြီးအဖြစ် ဆက်ရှိသော်လည်း ရုံးနှင့်အခမ်းအနားများတွင် မတွေ့ရဟုဆို". Khit Thit Media. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
- ↑ "Artistes and literary prize winners feted at 81st Armed Forces Day ceremony". The Global New Light of Myanmar. 27 March 2026.
- ↑ "Myanma Tatmadaw Cultural Team leaves for Thailand | Ministry Of Information". www.moi.gov.mm. Retrieved 5 June 2026.