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Myanmar: Military arrests dozens of villagers after junta-appointed administrator’s family killed
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NAYPYITAW, 26 December 2021, (TON): At least 40 locals were taken into military custody after two immediate family members of a junta-appointed administrator were killed in a village in Sagaing Township in the region by the same name last weekend.
Using knives, six assailants attacked Maung Maung Soe, the administrator for Pyitawthar village, and his family at their home on December 19. While Maung Maung Soe survived, his wife and daughter died in the incident.
Two anti-junta guerrilla forces, the Myinmu Township-based Black Hawk group and the Sagaing Special Combat Force, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Immediately following the assassination attempt, the military arrested two men and one woman from Pyitawthar. The next day, around 40 villagers were arrested after attempting to cross the Irrawaddy River, another local man told Myanmar Now.
He said that the villagers were hiding in the woods en route to Kyauktalone village on the other side of the river, opposite to Pyitawthar.
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