Major General Tin Soe (, died 2 August 2024) was a Burmese military officer. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the military attaché for the Myanmar embassy in

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. Following the

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, he returned to Myanmar and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. From August 2021 to July 2022, he was deployed to the Eastern Command headquarters in

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, Shan State. In December 2021, troops from the Eastern Command committed the Mo So massacre, which killed 44 civilians. In August 2022,

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reported that Tin Soe trained at the

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, which is run by the

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. In September 2022, the

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announced it was suspending training programs for the Burmese military starting in 2023. Tin Soe, by the head of the Air Force chief’s office, was killed in a helicopter crash at Hmawbi Air Base in

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on 2 August 2024.

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