Aung Thein Lin ( ; also spelled Aung Thein Linn) is a Burmese politician, and a member of parliament at the

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from the South Okkalapa constituency. The former brigadier general in the

Myanmar Army The Myanmar Army (; ) is the largest branch of the Tatmadaw, the armed forces of Myanmar, and has the primary responsibility of conducting land-based military operations. The Myanmar Army maintains the second largest active force in Southea ...

was mayor of

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from 2000 to 2010. 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 (USDA), which was transformed into the Union Solidarity and Development Party in April 2010.

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