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Myanmar: Junta-allied local administrator shot dead in Mandalay
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NAYPYITAW, 20 August 2021, (TON): A military council-appointed ward administrator in Mandalay’s Chan Aye Thazan Township was shot in the head by two gunmen, according to a ward resident who arrived at the scene after the assassination.
According to the resident “Aung Swe Tun, 47, was the administrator for Shwe Hlan ward. He was killed at his office and the perpetrators immediately fled the site of the murder.”
The resident told media that young people from the ward had been arrested by the junta’s armed forces in recent days, and speculated that this may have prompted retaliation from local resistance.
He alleged that Aung Swe Tun was a military informant.
He said “he personally showed the soldiers the way to the houses on 79th and 29th streets [in Shwe Hlan ward] where they arrested the youth.”
Local media attempted to contact Aung Swe Tun’s family to comment on the allegations, but had received no response at the time of reporting.
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