Sein Win

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Dr. Sein Win
Born	December 16, 1944 (1944-12-16) (age 63) Taung Twin Gyi
Nationality	Bamar
Successor	Incumbent
Political party	National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma

This article is about the Prime Minister of Burma. For the Brigadier General, see Sein Win (Brigadier General).

Dr. Sein Win is Chairman of National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma. And they made him Unofficial Prime Minister of the Union of Burma, elected by the 1990 People's Assembly known as the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma – a government-in-exile since 1990.

[edit] Biography

Sein Win was born on the 16th of December 1944 in Taungdwingyi, Burma, son of U Ba Win and Daw Khin Saw. His father is the elder brother of General Aung San and was part of the cabinet of Aung San. Ba Win was assassinated in 1947, together with Aung San and most members of the cabinet, just before Burma gained independence. Sein Win received his BSc.(Math) from University of Rangoon in 1965. He received the Dipl. Math in 1974 and a Dr. rer. nat. in 1979 from Hamburg University in Germany. He served as a lecturer at Colombo University in Sri Lanka from 1980 to 1981 and at Nairobi University in Kenya from 1982 to 1984.

[edit] History

The Union of Myanmar is a military regime. Elected delegates in the 1990 People's Assembly election formed the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), a government-in-exile since December 1990, with the mission of restoring democracy in Myanmar.^[1] Dr. Sein Win, a first cousin of Aung San Suu Kyi, is the NCGUB's prime minister since its inception. The NCGUB has been outlawed by the military junta. The current Head of State is Senior General Than Shwe, who holds the posts of "Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council" and "Commander in Chief of the Defence Services". General Khin Nyunt was prime minister until 19 October 2004, during which he was replaced by General Soe Win, after the purge of Military Intelligence sections within Myanmar Armed Forces.

US and European government sanctions against the military government, combined with consumer boycotts and shareholder pressure organized by Free Burma activists, have succeeded in forcing most western corporations to withdraw from Burma until they restore the NCGUB.^{[citation needed]}