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Aung Kyaw Zaw

Position

Lieutenant General Aung Kyaw Zaw was the Commander of the Bureau of Special Operations No. 3 of the Myanmar Armed Forces \n(Tatmadaw) from August 2015 to the end of 2017.

DoB

1961-08-20

Reg. ID

['BC 17444 (other-Other identification number) (Military Identification Number)' 'DM000826 (passport-National passport) (on 2011-11-22 valid to 2021-11-21)']

Linked to

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L:2019:114:FULL&from=EN

Official reason

Lieutenant General Aung Kyaw Zaw was the Commander of the Bureau of Special Operations No 3 of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) from August 2015 to the end of 2017. The Bureau of Special Operations No 3 oversaw the Western Command and, in that context, Lieutenant General Aung Kyaw Zaw is responsible for the atrocities and serious human rights vi...

Other Information

(Designation details: Date of listing: 25/06/2018)

Date of listing

2019-04-30

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