Burmese officers from strategic studies department including its heads Brigadier General Thein Swe and Brigadier General Than Tun and assistant-head Colonel Hla Min, each had been sentenced to 22 years in prison, according to those who are close to their families. Thein Swe had been officially requesting his retirement from the chairman of the junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) General Than Shwe for nearly three months. He was in charge of foreign affairs and computer department. The assistant head of the computer department Colonel Tin Oo was "allowed to retired" from the army.
All agents of the computer department had also been fired from their jobs, according to those who are close to the supreme command in Rangoon. Officers and agents of No.6 MIS, known to many people as the army of lackeys of their ousted head General Khin Nyunt had been detained and interrogated at the compound of Rangoon Division Military Command. Moreover, the commanders of No.2, MIS based in Lashio, Lieutenant-Colonel Thet Tin Sein, Major Min San Kyi and the commander of No.9 MIS Major Hteik Shwe Maw were arrested on 29 October and taken to Rangoon, according to eyewitnesses.
Although Burma's military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) has been arresting its military intelligence service (MIS) agents throughout the country, it is also replacing them with new agents in some townships. According to local residents, it is not known whether the new agents are military agents or from the Sa-Thonelone or the special police force, but they don't seem to be as powerful as their predecessors nor the police nor members of the junta-sponsored Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA). The relationship between the main opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) and the intelligence differs from one township to another, according to the NLD spokesman U Lwin. He added that the extraordinary thing at the moment is, he and another NLD leader are being followed only by an agent on motorcycle, instead of like before with three agents on cars. All in all, the relationship with the agents remains the same with regular harassments and arrests of NLD members. | Something is going on here. |
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