Than Shwe of the nation's ruling junta commuted it to the one-and-a-half years of house arrest.
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Than Shwe and his deputy, General Maung Aye, a respected military professional, are cautious and conservative.
Shwe Mann, the current regional commander, who is widely tipped to follow the Than Shwe trajectory.
Discusses the regime of Senior General Than Shwe, who came to power in 1992.
Than Shwe and his deputies and talked to detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi twice.
Than Shwe had said Yangon was working to end hostilities with minority separatist groups.
Similarly freaky but not nuclear-armed are Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and General Than Shwe of the Burmese junta.
The dictator, Than Shwe, could easily win the presidency should he want it.
Than Shwe, then the southwest regional commander based in Pathein, and now as Senior General the nation's supreme leader.
Other names included Than Shwe's predecessor as head of the junta, Gen.
Webb paid court to Than Shwe, the senior general in the brutally repressive junta that has misruled Burma (which it renamed Myanmar) since 1962.
Mr Ban left frustrated after his last visit on the invitation of former junta strongman Gen Than Shwe, describing it as a "very difficult mission".
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Then there was the emergence of Thein Sein, a former general who became the new president in March 2011, succeeding the hardline General Than Shwe.
In January, 2011, Than Shwe anointed a successor, General Thein Sein.
Than Shwe remains staunchly opposed to any political role for her.
Webb is the first member of Congress to visit Myanmar in more than a decade -- and the first American official to meet with Than Shwe.
This followed a letter from Miss Suu Kyi to General Than Shwe, the junta's leader, offering her co-operation in helping to get international sanctions against Myanmar lifted.
Maung Aye, who is regarded as Than Shwe's heir apparent, was to officiate at the ceremony and I had hoped I might meet him and arrange an interview.
General Than Shwe, the army chief, and other junta leaders are said to believe their own propaganda about being the people's protectors and the guardians of the nation.
Kyaw Ba, the tough former northern commander in Kachin State who is now Minister of Tourism, Tun Kyi has been reined in by the head of SLORC, Than Shwe.
Than Shwe, the leader of the Myanmar's military junta, refused Ban a meeting with Suu Kyi, who has been held under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years.
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.
One visiting foreign minister has reported that Mr Thein Sein told him last year that it was ages since he had spoken to General Than Shwe (who was presumed still to be pulling the strings).
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