Major-General Aye Kyaw was

Minister of Information An information minister (also called minister of information) is a position in the governments of some countries responsible for dealing with information matters; it is often linked with censorship and propaganda. Sometimes the position is given to ...

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

between June 1995 and September 1997. On 17 June 1995 Major-General Aye Kyaw replaced Brigadier-General Myo Thant as Minister of Information. The poet laureate

Soe Nyunt U Soe Nyunt ( my, (ဦး)စိုးညွန့်), who used the pen-name Htilar Sitthu ( my, ထီလာစစ်သူ; 18 April 1932 – 2 October 2009) was a Burmese writer, composer and journalist who was appointed the Poet Laureate of ...

was Deputy Minister of Information throughout his term of office. In July 1995 the Burmese opposition leader

Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from ...

was allowed to appear in public. 100 foreign reporters, photographers and cameramen drank tea and ate cakes in the garden of her Rangoon home. However, more than a dozen reporters were denied visas, apparently due to a blacklist imposed by Major-General Aye Kyaw's Ministry. On 11 October 1995 the United Nations Special Rapporteur Mr.

Yozo Yokota Yozo Yokota (17 October 1940 – 12 June 2019) was a professor of Law who acted as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar from 1992 to 1996. Academic career Yozo Yokota was born in New York City, USA o ...

met with Major General Aye Kyaw and members of his Information Committee. Aye Kyaw gave information on availability of national and international publications in Myanmar. He said that the written press, radio and television were subjected to governmental control and scrutiny, saying the present conditions did not allow liberalization of the media. When asked if he would distribute publications on international human rights standards, he said there was no requirement since Buddhist publications covered most of the human rights provisions. On 18 September 1997 the

State Peace and Development Council The State Peace and Development Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ ; abbreviated SPDC or , ) was the offi ...

issued a proclamation naming the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers and Ministers in the government. Major General

Kyi Aung Major-General Kyi Aung ( my, ကြည်အောင်) was Minister of Information and Minister of Culture in Burma. He retired in May 2006. Military career In January 1995 troops from Southern Command under Brigadier General Kyi Aung began a ...

was named Minister of Information

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aye Kyaw Government ministers of Myanmar Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Burmese military personnel