A retired military officer allegedly masterminded the killing last month of a prominent Muslim rights attorney and ruling-party advisor in what the Myanmar government has called a politically motivated “terrorist act,” the President’s Office said Wednesday.
A statement issued by the office of President Htin Kyaw said Aung Win Khaing, a former army lieutenant colonel who retired voluntarily from the military in 2014, orchestrated the assassination of Ko Ni on Jan. 29.
Police and the military are on the lookout for Aung Win Khaing, who is on the run, and other possible conspirators, the statement said.
Aung Win Khaing is the brother of Aung Win Zaw, who was arrested on Jan. 30 in Kayin state in connection with the murder. (Courtesy of rfa.org)
February 16, 2017
Bringing Burma Back From the Brink
The rattle of gunfire awoke a Rohingya man on the morning of Oct. 9 in his hometown of Wa Peik, a dusty hamlet of Kyee Kan Pyin village in a remote corner of Burma’s Rakhine state. “We were very scared,” he told me on the Bangladesh border. “All we could hear was yelling and gunfire.”
Several hundred ethnic Rohingya men and boys had attacked the local police headquarters. Rohingya militants simultaneously targeted two other police posts in the state. In total they killed nine policemen and wounded five, according to the government.
The Burmese army responded with brutal efficiency, rolling into Wa Peik in six vehicles, weapons at the ready. “When the soldiers entered the village, they started shooting,” the man recalled. “I saw them shoot at people as they fled.” (Courtesy of wsj.com/)
Several hundred ethnic Rohingya men and boys had attacked the local police headquarters. Rohingya militants simultaneously targeted two other police posts in the state. In total they killed nine policemen and wounded five, according to the government.
The Burmese army responded with brutal efficiency, rolling into Wa Peik in six vehicles, weapons at the ready. “When the soldiers entered the village, they started shooting,” the man recalled. “I saw them shoot at people as they fled.” (Courtesy of wsj.com/)
Foreign minister: Myanmar has to resolve Rohingya crisis
The Rohingyas, who already entered Bangladesh, will be shifted to Thengar Char in Hatiya, after the completion of total infrastructural development there, AH Mahmood Ali told the media at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, during a briefing on the prime minister’s upcoming visit to Germany.
“We will seek assistance from our partners to help ensure infrastructural development in Thengar Char,” the minister added.
Mahmood also binned the reports by foreign media on security menaces in Thengar Char, terming them baseless and contradictory.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to leave for Germany on Thursday to attend the 53rd Munich Security Conference. (Courtesy of dhakatribune.com)
“We will seek assistance from our partners to help ensure infrastructural development in Thengar Char,” the minister added.
Mahmood also binned the reports by foreign media on security menaces in Thengar Char, terming them baseless and contradictory.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to leave for Germany on Thursday to attend the 53rd Munich Security Conference. (Courtesy of dhakatribune.com)
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