The most notable of these siblings is Lt. General Than Hlaing, who was Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and Chief of the Myanmar Police Force (MPF) until 2 May 2022, appointed by the State Administration Council after the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
[1] Soe Moe Hlaing was a chemistry honours student at Yangon University.
[5] After returning home in 1991, he was arrested and sentenced to 13 years in prison for his involvement in the ABSDF.
[1] During this time he founded a community based tourism network for local development,[6] and also established the Winkabaw Ex-Political Prisoner Education Network, which offered free education to family members of political prisoners.
[7] On 22 May 2021, in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, an informant allegedly told troops about their whereabouts and he was arrested along with eight others.