[1] He left the office in 2016 and worked as visiting senior research fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore until July 2019.

[2][3] Ye Htut applied to Defence Services Academy but initially failed it first time, so enrolled at Rangoon University.

After graduation in 1981, he was dispatched to Kayin State, where he would spend five years fighting the Karen National Union along the Myanmar-Thai border.

[9] The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw formed a commission to investigate the identity of Dr Seik Phwar after the blogger wrote an article criticising parliament.

[11] In June 2014, he posted an apology note on his Facebook account after a storm of criticism followed his wife's sharing of a photoshopped image of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Hijab.