According to state-run media reports, security forces in Myanmar have taken a six-year-old girl into custody along with 15 other people suspected of being involved in the killing of a retired army officer last month.
13 males and three females were detained in four different areas of Myanmar late last month, according to a report released by the state-run organization Global New Light of Myanmar on Friday.
Lin Latt Shwe, the six-year-old daughter of the alleged assassin, Myo Ko Ko, is among those detained, according to reports that she also had three other aliases. According to the newspaper report, the child and her parents were detained in Bagan, which is central to the country.
The Golden Valley Warriors, a well-known armed group that calls itself the Golden Valley Warriors, claimed responsibility for the killing of retired Brigadier General Cho Tun Aung, 68, on May 22 while he was shot outside his home in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital.
The owner of a private hospital, who is alleged to have treated the assassin, who was shot during the attack, is one of the other detainees.
The Golden Valley Warriors have disputed that the 16 people detained were part of their operation, according to independent news outlet The Irrawaddy.
On suspicion of being involved in the killing of retired Brig-Gen Cho Tun Aung in Yangon on May 22, the junta has detained 16 people, including a 6-year-old girl. The 16 are not related to them, according to Golden Valley Warriors, who claimed responsibility. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar image twitter.com/dtTCEJ1bF0
The killing of former Cambodian ambassador Cho Tun Aung is the most recent attack on figures connected to the ruling military, which took control of the nation in 2021 after removing Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government.
Targeted assassinations have been carried out against senior civil servants, local officials, business associates of the ruling generals, and suspected informers in Myanmar since the coup and the start of the civil war.
Source: Aljazeera
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