Discusses the regime of Senior General Than Shwe, who came to power in 1992.

NEWYORKER: The Burmese Spring

Webb paid court to Than Shwe, the senior general in the brutally repressive junta that has misruled Burma (which it renamed Myanmar) since 1962.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Snakes in the grass

In a recent conversation with Junichiro Koizumi, Japan's prime minister, Than Shwe, Myanmar's most senior general, had raised the possibility of a role for Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the country's democracy movement.

ECONOMIST: Hint of a role for Aung San Suu Kyi

Than Shwe, then the southwest regional commander based in Pathein, and now as Senior General the nation's supreme leader.

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