Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing steps down, eyes presidency

Mihaela Chircă

Min Aung Hlaing spent a decade jostling with civilian leaders before mounting a 2021 coup, jailing Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and triggering a vicious civil war that is still being fought. Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar's military chief who led a coup in 2021, stepped down on Monday (Mar 30) to stand as president in a parliamentary vote following the first polls in the Southeast Asian nation since the takeover that triggered a civil war. The 69-year-old general, who had commanded

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