Kyaw Win still in hot water

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Kyaw Win still in hot water

Former Maj-Gen Kyaw Win may be teacher's pet in the top quarters, but he is still pet peeve in some other quarters that have stubbornly refused to allow him to go scot free as the sole survivor from Khin Nyunt debacle last October, according to the business sector in Muse, opposite Yunnan's Ruili, reports Hawkeye:

Two weeks earlier, Muse's top tycoons; Sai Htun Aye "So So Pyay Pyay", Ah Hong and Ah Hua were summoned to the township law court to testify on the graft cases that have been directed against the deposed prime minister Gen Khin Nyunt and his followers. "Detailed questions were asked about the role of Gen Kyaw Win in the MI (Military Intelligence)'s shady activities," said the source. "Their testimonies, they say, may be used against him in accordance with Evidence Act Section 164."

Sai Htun Aye owns Moonshine Island, one of the 12 casinos in Muse and has been reported earlier as the unofficial tax collector for the Burma Army's top brass. (For more information on him, see Sai Htun Aye, Pocket druglord, S.H.A.N., 10 July 2004)

It is believed that one of the recipients of his "unofficial tax" was Kyaw Win.

He has been described by Irrawaddy as a mild-mannered, polite, softly-spoken spook, who had served on the frontline in Shan State under a battalion commander named Than Shwe, who in 1992 became head of the ruling military council. It was Than Shwe who moved Kyaw Win to Rangoon in 1993 to be appointed as deputy to Khin Nyunt, then Burma's top spy chief.

To date, his fate is still unclear. "He wasn't under arrest, but he wasn't going to the office either," writes Irrawaddy's Bruce Hawke.