Last Updated: December 4, 2024

Soe Win

Position

Deputy-Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) since 2011. Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) and member of the National Defence and Security Council (NDSC).

DoB

1960-03-01

Linked to

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.L_.2022.121.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2022%3A121%3ATOC

Official reason

Soe Win has been the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) since 2011. He is Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) and member of the National Defence and Security Council (NDSC). On 1 February 2021, the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw), led by Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, staged a coup in Myanmar b...

Other Information

(Date of UN designation: 2021-03-22)

Date of listing

2022-04-22

Program information

Authority

EU

Program

Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Myanmar/Burma

Regime

EU country specific

Target State

Myanmar

Measures

Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission

Sanctions Portfolio

- All assets of the persons and entities listed in Annexes IV of Council Regulation (EU) 401/2013 should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. The list of persons and entities concerned is included in the Financial Sanctions Database (linked). - Member States shall enforce travel rest...

Official Information

In view of the absence of progress towards democratization and of the violation of human rights in Myanmar/Burma, on 28 October 1996, the EU reaffirmed the restrictive measures already in place, which included an arms embargo, and introduced additional ones, such as travel restrictions and the suspension of high-level bilateral governmental visits ...

Program URL

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02013D0184-20210621&fbclid=IwAR0aIQnhLlfDnP0xn_quu9Lbspv8IE6NVrAMZlPRSROKs-MdZS6xhSJdTQI