Anti-junta guerilla forces shot dead an alleged military informant in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar Township on Thursday morning and then detonated two bombs, injuring junta forces who arrived at the scene to investigate.
The attackers, who call themselves the Hlaing Tharyar Dalan Eradication Team, shot Tin Maung Win in the head and chest. Dalan is a Burmese word used derogatively by anti-coup forces to describe military informants.
“We shot him four times and planted three bombs for the dogs but only two of them detonated,” said a member of the group, using a pejorative term to refer to junta soldiers.
Tin Maung Win was riding a motorcycle on Bamaw Atwin Wun road in the Shwe Lin Ban industrial zone at around 8am when the attackers struck, an eyewitness said.
“Tin Maung Win died on the spot,” the witness said. “Soldiers and police eventually arrived in three vehicles.”
There were then two explosions that injured a military officer and two police officers, he said, adding that Tin Maung Win’s body was carried away in a vehicle owned by a local charity. Soldiers later combed the area and found an undetonated bomb, he said.
The Dalan Eradication Team member said Tin Maung Win was killed because he helped have 10 people jailed for their alleged role in setting fire to Chinese-owned factories in Hlaing Tharyar in March.
“He accused 10 youths of arson… and they were sentenced to 20 years in prison. Ten other youths who he accused are still unable to come back into the ward. That’s why we killed him,” he said.
Tin Maung Win was a local administrator on Min Ye Kyawswar 7th street in the township’s Ward 2, he added.
Shortly after the killings on Thursday his group posted the names and photos of nine other suspected junta collaborators on Facebook along with a “special warning letter.”
