Last Updated: July 15, 2025
Nyunt Win Swe
Position
Former Commander of the Yangon Region of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) from June 2020 to early 2023. He commands and controls military forces in the area of Yangon
Linked to
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202500822
Official reason
Major General Nyunt Win Swe is the Commander of the Yangon Region of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) since June 2020. In that capacity, Nyunt Win Swe commands and controls military forces in the Yangon Region and, together with the Head of Bureau of Special Operations 5, Lieutenant General Thet Pon, oversees the military tribunals for the Yango...
Other Information
(Date of UN designation: 2022-11-08)
Date of listing
2025-04-28
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 ...
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