Posted on 08/27/2003 11:15:43 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:07:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BANGKOK — Reeling from bomb blasts, U.S. sanctions and demands to free Aung San Suu Kyi from detention, Burma has shuffled its leadership and promoted its intelligence chief to prime minister.
The largest country in Southeast Asia named Gen. Khin Nyunt as the new prime minister earlier this week, capping his 20 years as head of the Defense Services Intelligence Directorate.
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