State Counsellor, Foreign Secretary, Minister (Presidents Office), and NLD Chairperson, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, today appointed a new Deputy Minister for Women, in an apparent response to criticism over her failure to appoint any women to government other than herself. No official explanation was given regarding the unexpected announcement.
Aung Kyaw, a former Major General who served in Light Infantry Division 77, was Deputy Minister for Industry (No2) until 2011. He is known to be close to Thura Shwe Mann, and served with him in Karen State in the 1980s.
An NLD insider speaking off the record told Burma Tha Din that Aung Kyaw was ideally qualified for the post, being both a friend of Shwe Mann and having a wife and daughter, so understands women very well.
Monday, April 4, 2016
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