Khin Nyunt was much impressed by Singapore, one of the few countries he has visited.
Myanmar's future looked bleak long before General Khin Nyunt's removal, observes one Myanmar-watching diplomat.
General Khin Nyunt's successor stands accused by America of direct involvement in that attack.
In Manila on Nov. 29, Khin Nyunt met with Asiaweek to discuss a wide variety of topics.
Three months later, General Khin Nyunt became prime minister and quickly issued a plan for restoring democracy.
The top general will also, no doubt, come down hard on any dissent following Khin Nyunt's removal.
He sent trusted chum, tycoon Ananda Krishnan, to Yangon to try to talk sense to leader Khin Nyunt.
Much of the pressure for opening up the country to foreign investment seems to have come from Khin Nyunt.
Afterward, Ne Win told Khin Nyunt that corruption had to be rooted out.
General Khin Nyunt could only attempt these initiatives because the junta let him.
More importantly, Khin Nyunt, 60, is a member - some say the key member - of Myanmar's ruling military council.
He may also want to entrench his own position at the expense of Khin Nyunt, the once all-powerful intelligence chief.
There is talk that Khin Nyunt's own job is on the line as the alleged power struggle with Maung Aye intensifies.
It's said that when the aging Ne Win dies, Khin Nyunt will lose his greatest source of protection and may be sidelined.
Also snagged in the same purge that year was military intelligence chief, General Khin Nyunt, who was put under house arrest for unspecified charges.
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General Khin Nyunt's main success arguably came in negotiating a series of ceasefires with Myanmar's ethnic minorities, bringing some respite from their long battles for autonomy.
Since his appointment as head of military intelligence 20 years ago, General Khin Nyunt had acquired a reputation as a man one could do some business with.
One son is an army officer, but the other, Dr. Ye Naing Win (also a medical doctor like his mother), was bizarrely disowned last year by Khin Nyunt reportedly for marrying a Singapore woman.
The government and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees were well advanced on a sweeping repatriation plan when, in October 2004, the Burmese general they had been dealing with, Khin Nyunt, was deposed as prime minister by more hardline generals.
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