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Myanmar junta eliminates retirement age for military chiefs: media
The junta's Defense Ministry scrapped the age limit for commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief on Feb. 4, just days after Min Aung Hlaing seized power in a coup Feb. 1, the Irrawaddy news website report said. He turned 65 in April.
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In this file photo taken on July 19, 2018, Myanmar's Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the Myanmar armed forces, arrives to pay his respects to Myanmar independence hero General Aung San and eight others assassinated in 1947, during a ceremony to mark the 71th anniversary of Martyrs' Day in Yangon. Myanmar's military seized power in a bloodless coup on February 1, 2021, detaining democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi as it imposed a one-year state of emergency. (Agence France-Presse/Ye Aung Thu)
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he Myanmar junta has eliminated the mandatory retirement age of 65 for military chiefs, enabling junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to continue in his post, a local online news outlet reported Thursday.
The junta's Defense Ministry scrapped the age limit for commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief on Feb. 4, just days after Min Aung Hlaing seized power in a coup Feb. 1, the Irrawaddy news website report said. He turned 65 in April.
Min Aung Hlaing assumed the post of commander-in-chief in 2011 when the county took steps toward democracy, transitioning from military to civilian rule.
In the Feb. 1 coup, he ousted an elected government led by leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her party, the National League for Democracy, calling the results of a general election won by the NLD in November fraudulent.
Since the military takeover, Myanmar's security forces have killed 810 peaceful protestors and other citizens, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a rights group monitoring the situation in the country.
