Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Kyaw Swar Lin
Aliases
Kyaw Swar Linn
Position
Chief of General Staff for the Myanmar army, navy, and air force. Former Army Chief of Staff from October 2023 to December 2024 and former Quartermaster General from May 2020 to December 2024, \nHe runs the Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC),
DoB
N/A
Linked to
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202500822
Official reason
Lieutenant General Kyaw Swar Lin was been appointed as Quartermaster General in May 2020. It is the sixth highest position in the military of Myanmar/Burma. The Office of the Quartermaster General is a department under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense and is involved in arms and military equipment procurement for the Myanmar Armed ...
Other Information
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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