In January 1995 troops from Southern Command under Brigadier General Kyi Aung began a drive in Taungoo District to consolidate SLORC control.
[5] On 30 September 1999 the National League for Democracy, the main opposition party, filed lawsuits claiming "Abuse of Power" against government officials including Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt, director-general of the National Bureau of Intelligence, Home Minister Colonel Tin Hlaing, Information Minister Major-General Kyi Aung and others.
[8] The writer, composer and journalist Soe Nyunt was Deputy Minister of Culture until 2003 under Major General Kyi Aung.
[9] As Minister of Culture, Kyi Aung was named by the Council of the European Union in June 2003 as a member of the military regime who were subject to a visa ban and assets freeze.
[10] In December 2005 Kyi Aung welcomed Senior General Than Shwe when he visited the site where the palace of King Anawrahta, founder of the First Myanmar Empire, was being excavated and reconstructed.