Editing Min Aung Hlaing

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{{Quote|The [Armed Forces of Myanmar] has to be present as the leading role in national politics with regards to the ways we stand along the history and the critical situations of the country.|Min Aung Hlaing}}'''Min Aung Hlaing''' (July 3^rd, 1956 - ) is a senior general in the Myanmar Army who is currently the State Leader of Myanmar following a military coup in 2021. As commander-in-chief he is responsible for human rights violations by the Myanmar Army that could amount to [[genocide]], [[crimes against humanity]], and [[war crimes]]. According to Burma Campaign UK, he is an obstacle to improving human rights, democratic reform, peace, modernization, and improving health and education in Myanmar.

The UNHRC reported that Min Aung Hlaing's soldiers have been deliberately targeting civilians in Northern states of Myanmar and have been doing "[[Rohingya Genocide|systemic discrimination]]” and human rights violations against minority communities in Rakhine State. In particular, he has been accused of [[ethnic cleansing]] against the Rohingya people.

In early 2021, Hlaing declared the 2020 election results fraudulent and launched a military coup against then-leader [[Aung San Suu Kyi]]. She, along with many other civilian leaders, was arrested. The army then installed him as leader of Myanmar (though he was believed by some to have already been ''de facto'' leader of the country), after which the [[State Administration Council]] was formed to govern the country. Because of this, it is believed that he intends to revert the country to a military dictatorship. In response to the coup, many Myanmarese citizens organized protests demanding the release of those arrested and the reinstatement of the civilian government. With Min Aung Hlaing's authorization, the military and police have used force, including live rounds, to crack down on these protests, resulting in between 300 and 931 deaths. As a result, ethnic armed groups withdrew from their ceasefire agreements, returning Myanmar to civil war. Some protesters even made improvised guns and slingshots to defend themselves, and eventually received combat training and equipment from ethnic armed groups in order to form an army for the government-in-exile. Six months after the coup, on 1 August 2021, Min Aung Hlaing formed a caretaker government and established himself as the country's prime minister under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myint_Swe Myint Swe] and de facto governor. He also remains the Chairman of the SAC.