Steering Council for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union ကို ၂၀၂၆ မတ် ၃၀ တွင် ဖွဲ့စည်းခဲ့တယ်။ NUG နဲ့ နီးကပ်တဲ့ EAO အုပ်စုကို စစ်ရေး-နိုင်ငံရေး ပူးတွဲဆုံးဖြတ်ရေးအတွက် ပြန်လည်စုစည်းဖို့ ကြိုးပမ်းမှုဖြစ်တယ်။
In Myanmar's business world, the man widely known as "Saya Kyaung" is Aung Ko Win. He is the founder of Kanbawza Bank (KBZ Bank), one of Myanmar's largest private banks, and the patriarch of the KBZ business empire.
Aung Ko Win was born on 11 November 1961 and graduated from the University of Mandalay with a degree in chemistry. Before entering the business world, he worked as a schoolteacher in Taunggyi, Shan State, which earned him the nickname "Saya Kyaung" (Teacher Kyaung).
From teaching, he moved into tuition classes, trade, and mining, and after 1988 he entered the business world full-time. According to a 2012 Reuters special report, a close friendship with Vice Senior General Maung Aye, then a regional commander in the jade-mining region, brought him jade and gem mining licenses and made him wealthy. Reuters reported that he himself admitted, in a 2008 meeting with American diplomats, that Maung Aye had granted him the jade licenses and that the two remained close friends to this day.
The same Reuters report noted that the walls of Kanbawza Bank's buildings display photos of him inspecting jade boulders together with the retired dictator Senior General Than Shwe. The Irrawaddy likewise wrote, in a 26 September 2022 article, that he was exceptionally close to the military government's deputy chief Maung Aye, and that this closeness let his businesses expand rapidly.
On 1 July 1994, he founded Kanbawza Bank Limited in Taunggyi, Shan State. By the late 1990s the family had moved to Yangon and expanded the banking business, growing to more than 485 branches by around 2017. After Mayflower Bank and Asia Wealth Bank lost their licenses in 2005, KBZ emerged as Myanmar's most successful private bank.
The KBZ group is far more than a bank. It is one of Myanmar's top conglomerates, spanning airlines (Air KBZ and Myanmar Airways International), insurance (KBZ MS General Insurance, KBZ Life), jade, gems, mining, fuel, construction, real estate, hotels, travel, agriculture, manufacturing, and a football club (Kanbawza FC).
On the family side, his wife Nan Than Htwe is a former schoolteacher and, according to English-language Wikipedia, the niece of a former State Peace and Development Council official, U Win Myint. He has three daughters — Nang Lang Kham, Nang Kham Noung, and Nang Mo Hom — two of whom serve as deputy chief executive officers of KBZ Bank. In August 2022, the junta appointed Brigadier General Zaw Myint Naing as vice-governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar; The Irrawaddy reported that he is Aung Ko Win's brother-in-law.
In the public eye, he is known as a devout Buddhist and a generous donor. He donated over 3.6 million US dollars to the 2015 flood relief effort, and his daughters' Brighter Future Myanmar Foundation reported donating more than 152 billion kyats between 2008 and January 2019. In January 2021, he donated 3 billion kyats toward buying COVID-19 vaccines, bringing his total COVID-period donations in 2020–2021 to over 14.2 billion kyats.
His honors include the Sithu, Wunna Kyaw Htin, and Thiri Pyanchi titles, and in 2019 he received a special presidential award for being the country's top income-tax payer for seven consecutive assessment years from 2011–2012 to 2017–2018. In January 2021, The Irrawaddy reported, he was awarded Myanmar's highest honor for his services to the country.
Yet those same military ties once drew international sanctions against him. In May 2010, the European Union listed "Aung Ko Win a.k.a. Saya Kyaung" under Regulation 411/2010. The list also covered his wife and daughter, along with Kanbawza Bank, Myanmar Billion Group, Nilayoma, East Yoma companies, and Kanbawza FC. The Australian government likewise imposed financial measures linked to him starting in 2007. Those sanctions were later lifted, and no verified evidence has been found of an international sanctions listing against him in his own name today.
After the 2021 military coup, his empire began to clash with the junta. Myanmar Now reported on 7 July 2022 that the junta had seized more than 20,000 acres of land held by the Kanbawza family.
On 10 May 2022, RFA Burmese reported that his daughter Nang Lang Kham had been stopped and questioned as a suspect at Yangon International Airport. The junta denied, via Eleven Media Group, that she had been arrested or detained.
On 30 September 2022, The Irrawaddy reported an income-tax dispute between the KBZ group and the Internal Revenue Department. Analysts say that under the junta, pressuring top cronies over taxes is used as a way to control business owners.
RFA reported in 2021 and 2023 that mobile money accounts at private banks, including KBZPay, were shut down or frozen on the authorities' orders. That shows the junta's control over private banks, though there is no evidence that Aung Ko Win personally issued those orders.
One caution: claims circulate online that he pulled the strings behind the 2021 coup, but no trustworthy news source has produced evidence to confirm that. This article leaves out allegations that cannot be verified.
In short, Aung Ko Win — "Saya Kyaung" — rose from a schoolteacher in Taunggyi to build one of Myanmar's biggest business empires on the back of friendships with the military government's generals. He remains a controversial figure to this day, a symbol of the military–business nexus.
"What can India do to move Myanmar away from further violence?" written by former Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Gautam Mukhopadhaya in the Indian online journal The WIRE. Excerpted from a long article.
Staying close to home is not the right thing to do when a house is on fire. Currently, China is taking advantage of the fact that the world is falling apart in Burma, while India can no longer sit back and watch.
The current Indian policy of relying on the Burmese coup group to contain China is even more questionable. Burma's military, according to history and tradition, is against China both militarily and militarily. Special attention is paid to the influx of people.
However, in 1988, when the army killed their people, 2017 (Rohingya), And whenever it happens like this, China has taken advantage of the international ostracism. The army is weak domestically and has always had to make concessions to China. Can that position ensure India's security?
China is now stretching its arms from the Bay of Bengal to the Gulf of Muttama.Under former President Thein Sein, the Western Group United States Japan With the restoration of relations with India and the Burmese people's dissatisfaction with the Chinese encroachment interms of population, the situation has deteriorated. Anti-Chinese views are now growing, with suspicions that China may be behind the coup.
Therefore, achieving democracy where the people of Burma have full say can be more beneficial for India than having the Burmese army suffer because of China. It is uncertain whether he will wait for the time when he will become himself. Only if the mother and father try to do so, there may be political relations.
India will not be able to compete with the Chinese in terms of being favored by the Burmese military.
The more this is done, the stronger the view that the Burmese people are encouraging and supporting the military will become, and it may become as if they are creating damage to India's interests.
Therefore, India can only use its democratic and economic power to be in line with the wishes of the Burmese people, as opposed to China's path. There will be no benefit if the Burmese military side, which is oppressive and ruled by China, stands still.What India should do is to secretly communicate with the National Unity Government and the main ethnic armed organizations.
The Burmese military does not come up with any ideas other than holding on to the 2008 constitution, which is currently impossible. Than Shwe's plan is nothing more than the ideology of wanting to dominate from behind by putting on a show and dominating in the form of a civilian government.
The PR election they will hold is not to be seen as official in any way at home and abroad, and the people who will oversee the election are being attacked by the revolutionary forces, and they are not scolding them for it to happen.
The ASEAN side has tried to negotiate with the opposition forces, but there is no prospect of doing so.Young people, who are the most part of Myanmar's population base, are concerned about their future opportunities,They have decided to make sacrifices for the right to live and travel freely.
Now, it is inconceivable that the army will be able to regain control of the entire country. However, only the federal democratic union that will participate in the military will be able to protect Myanmar from becoming a Balkan region. Therefore, India needs to review the Myanmar policy. There is a need to think
more balance between the power that will come out of the gun and the power that will come from the people.Will the power that comes out of the gun be revealed to be beneficial to India? Or we will have to think about whether freedom and democracy are the real values for India. In the current situation, accepting and resettling the fleeing refugees; Among them, the students awarding scholarships to scholars; Political investments should have been made, such as providing medicine and humanitarian aid.The people's resistance and struggle will surely win!!!
