Aung Thein Lin

Who is Aung Thein Lin?

Aung Thein Lin is a Burmese politician, and a member of parliament at the Pyithu Hluttaw from the South Okkalapa constituency. The former brigadier general in the Myanmar Army was mayor of Yangon from 2003 to 2011. He was a major in the military in 1988 and later became the commander of Light Infantry Division 101 and then deputy minister of Industry-2 as well as an executive of the junta’s mass organization, the Union Solidarity and Development Association, which was transformed into the Union Solidarity and Development Party in April 2010.