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BAGO DIVISION – Than Zaw, a Pyu Saw Htee militant from Oakpho Township that has been colluding with the terrorist junta council in illegal logging was killed in an attack targeting him and his car was also destroyed, according to an official from Tharyarwaddy District People’s Defence Force (PDF).
At around 4 p.m. on May 22, the Pyu Saw Htee militant from Meechaungtin Village arrived near Ashay Ohntaw Teak Plantation at Htanpinkone Village in a Faw truck carrying illegal logs. He was attacked by revolutionary soldiers from the tactical column under Tharyarwaddy District PDF Battalion 3802, Company 5 and was killed on the spot.
A mobile phone and an ID card were confiscated from the body of Pyu Saw Htee Than Zaw and revolutionary forces torched and destroyed his Faw truck loaded with illegal logs.
Than Zaw was said to have been determined as a military target and attacked as he had submitted false intel to the terrorist junta council, which resulted in innocent civilians getting abducted; personally transported junta soldiers crossing the Yoma ranges; and colluded with the junta council and committed illegal logging in the Yoma ranges.
“Than Zaw colluded with the junta council and cut down even the teak saplings in the Yoma for his illegal logging operation and also personally transported the junta dogs (junta forces) with his car. So we waited for him and eliminated him. After his elimination, junta dogs from light infantry 6 entered the Yoma. The junta dogs from infantry 1 are also preparing to launch an offensive. Than Zaw was a solid supporter of the junta council so the junta dogs are angered by his death. There were also civilians abducted and murdered because of him,” explained the official from Tharyarwaddy District PDF.