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Myanmar President removes party chair and other key figures after attempts to change the constitution

14 August 2015
Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann attends a USDP meeting on August 12, flanked by vice chairs Thura U Aye Myint (left) and U Htay Oo (right) [photo credit: The Myanmar Times]
Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann attends a USDP meeting on August 12, flanked by vice chairs Thura U Aye Myint (left) and U Htay Oo (right) [photo credit: The Myanmar Times]
<p>Thura U Shwe Mann has been ousted from his post as leader of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party after a midnight police swoop on party headquarters. The removal of the party chair was one among several overhauls of key USDP figures announced yesterday in a rupture that exposed long-rumoured power struggles between different factions of the military-aligned party.&nbsp;</p>
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