Irrawaddy-July 18
At least six Myanmar junta officials including a judge and an army captain have been killed in the commercial capital Yangon in the last four days. On Monday morning, army captain Aung Naing Phyoe from the military’s weapons factory and his wife Ma Jue Jue Aung were shot dead by gunmen in Yangon’s Hlaing Township while they were driving. The Facebook page of the pro-military regime the News of Myanmar reported that the couple were shot dead at close range by “terrorists”. Anonymous Urban Guerrillas (AUG), a local resistance group, claimed responsibility for the assassination. AUG also claimed to have killed U Khin Maung Latt, a junta-appointed ward administrator from Yangon’s Mayangone Township, last Friday. The urban guerilla group said that the victim was a junta informant who had been involved in torturing civilian detainees. The AUG has also vowed to launch more operations targeting junta informants and regime subordinates in the west of Yangon. Also on Friday morning, another man accused of being a junta informant was shot dead by two gunmen in Yangon’s Twante Township. No group has claimed responsibility for the killing yet. On Sunday, a combined force of urban resistance groups attacked junta-appointed ward administrators at a teashop in Yangon’s Shwepyithar Township.
Ward administration member U Win Naing, who is a leader of the new pro-junta Thwe Thout vigilante group, died in the attack, said the Yangon Urban Guerrilla Army (YUGA), which coordinated the attack. The operation, which started in April 2022, has seen 91 regime targets attacked and resulted in the deaths of over 80 regime forces, their allied members and informants, with another 90 injured. Read more at: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/six-myanmar-regime-officials-assassinated-in-yangon-in-last-four-days.html
