Thein Sein is a Burmese politician and retired general in the Myanmar Army who served as the eighth President of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016. He previously served as Prime Minister from 2007 to 2011, and was considered by many in and outside Myanmar as a reformist leader in the post-junta government.
Thein Sein in 2013
Thein Sein and Thai PM Abhisit Vejjajiva during a state visit to Naypyidaw on 11 October 2010.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Burma's President Thein Sein in Naypyitaw, 1 December 2011.
Thein Sein meets US President Barack Obama in Rangoon, 19 November 2012
The Myanmar Army is the largest branch of the Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) of Myanmar and has the primary responsibility of conducting land-based military operations. The Myanmar Army maintains the second largest active force in Southeast Asia after the People's Army of Vietnam. It has clashed against ethnic and political insurgents since its inception in 1948.
Myanmar Army Honour Guards saluting the arrival of the Thai delegation in October 2010
707th Artillery Operation Command