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Order of the Union of Burma

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Order of the Union of Burma
(Pyidaungsu Sithu Thingaha)
Established2 September 1948
Country Myanmar
GradesGrand Commander
Grand Officer
Commander
Officer
Member
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Ribbon bar of the Order of the Union of Burma (military and civilian member)

The Order of the Union of Myanmar (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုစည်သူသင်္ဂဟ [pjìdàʊɰ̃zṵ sìθù θɪ̀ɰ̃ɡəha̰]) is the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the government of Myanmar (also known as Burma).

The order was founded on 2 September 1948 as a replacement for the British Order of Burma. The original order had been founded by Royal Warrant on 10 May 1940. The title Pyidaungsu Sithu Thingaha may be used by the awardee.

Award classes

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The Order of the Union of Burma is awarded in two divisions (military and civil) and each of these is split into five classes:

  1. အဂ္ဂမဟာသရေစည်သူ Agga Maha Thray Sithu - Grand Commander
  2. သတိုးမဟာသရေစည်သူ Thado Maha Thray Sithu - Grand Officer
  3. မဟာသရေစည်သူ Maha Thray Sithu - Commander
  4. သရေစည်သူ Thray Sithu - Officer
  5. စည်သူ Sithu - Member

The first class consists of a gold braided salwe worn across the breast with the badge of the order suspended. It is decorated with a large gold and enamelled breast star surrounded by five small stars.

2nd class honors have a single breast star that is smaller than the first class version.

3rd class honors have a badge, worn from a ribbon around the neck.

Recipients

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Recipients of the Order include:

Agga Maha Thray Sithu

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Recipient Year received Note
Praphas Charusathien 1956
Wan Waithayakon 1956
Prayoon Yuthasastrkosol 1956
Thein Sein 2012
Sao Shwe Thaik ?

Thadoe Maha Thray Sithu

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Recipient Year received Note
Dawee Chullasapya 1956

Maha Thray Sithu

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Recipient Year received Note
U Thant 1961
Khin Maung Phyu 1961
Lt-Gen Maung Bo 2012
Lt-Gen Tin Oo 2012
Lt-Gen Soe Win 2012
Brigadier Aung Gyi 1962

Thray Sithu

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Recipient Year received Note
Maj-Gen Thura Thiha Thura Sit Maung 2012
Lt-Gen Kyaw Than 2012
Aung Ko Win 2020
Vice Senior General Soe Win 2022[1]

Sithu

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Recipient Year received Note
Tin Tin Mya 2012 Singer
Khin Maung Nyunt 2012
San Yin (San Shar Tin) 2012
Dr. Kyaw Sein 2012
Kyi Soe Tun 2012
Myint Myint Khin 2012
Shwe Nan Tin 2012
Ledwinthar Saw Chit 2013

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "(၇၄) နှစ်မြောက် လွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့တွင် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ဒုတိယဥက္ကဋ္ဌ သရေစည်သူဘွဲ့ရရှိခဲ့ပြီး စည်သူဘွဲ့ရရှိသူ ၁၀ ဦး၊ သူရဘွဲ့ရရှိသူ တစ်ဦး၊ ဇေယျကျော်ထင်ဘွဲ့ရရှိသူ ၁၇ ဦး၊ ဝဏ္ဏကျော်ထင်ဘွဲ့ရရှိသူနှစ်ဦး စုစုပေါင်း ၃၁ ဦးကို ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင်ဘွဲ့နှင့် တံဆိပ်များပေးအပ်ချီးမြှင့်" (in Burmese).