Myanmar: Two members of military-backed USDP shot dead in Mandalay

NAYPYITAW, 03 December 2021, (TON): Two members of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) have been killed in as many days in Mandalay, both on suspicion of acting as military informants.

A 50-year-old former ward administrator named Myo Myint was shot dead at around 11am in Aye Thukha ward, located in Mandalay’s Maha Aungmyay Township.

According to a resident of the area, the killing took place near the ward’s Thidar Yone monastery.

The local, who spoke on condition of anonymity “it was just a single gunshot to the head. He died on the spot. A social service vehicle came to pick up his body.”

A Mandalay-based resistance group called Generation Z Power (GZP) claimed responsibility for the assassination.

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