* Cho Htun Aung, retired general and diplomat, shot dead on May 22 * Junta says arrested 16 people, including Young Girl * Myanmar in Onrus since 2021 coup caused a civil war on June 6 (Reuters) -Myanmar’s Army arrested a six-year-old child as part of a A retired military officer and diploma, a diploma, a junta herd from a retired military officer, a diploma, a diploma, a junta herd from a retired military officer, a diploma, a diploma, a Junta-R herd of a retired military officer, a diploma, a diploma, a diploma, a diploma, a diploma, a diploma, a diploma, Junta-R herd of a retired military officer. On Friday. Cho Htun Aung, 68, a retired Brigadier General who also served as ambassador, was shot dead on May 22 in Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon, in one of the highest profile murders in a country in the throat of a larger civil war. Myanmar has been in an unrest since the military seized a coup in February 2021, which overthrew an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and caused widespread protests. The junta’s violent oppression of division has provoked an unprecedented nationwide uprising. A collection of established ethnic armies and new armed groups dumped the areas of the well-armed army, and the Guerrilla style battles even broke out in urban areas such as Yangon. “A total of 16 offenders – 13 men and three females – were arrested,” the global new light of Myanmar newspaper reported. In an accompanying graph, the newspaper carried the image of the six -year -old child, identified as the daughter of the alleged assassin. Her face was faded in an online version of the newspaper that Reuters saw, but visible in other social media posts made by Junta authorities. A spokesman for Junta did not respond to calls commenting. Golden Valley Warriors, an anti-Junta uprising, said they killed the retired general because of his continued support for military operations, including civilians’ attacks, according to a May 22 statement. The junta claims that the group is supported by the National Unity Government – a shadow government consisting of remnants of the disabled administration of Suu Kyu fighting the military – and an assassin pay about 200,000 Myanmar Kyat ($ 95.52) for a murder, the Government Gazette reports. Nug spokesman Nay Phone Latt denied that the shadow government made such payments. “It’s not true that we pay people to kill other people,” he told Reuters. Since the coup, the Junta of Myanmar has arrested more than 29,000 people, including more than 6,000 women and 600 children, according to the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners, an activist group. The deaths among civilians and pro-democracy activists confirmed by AAPP during this period amount to more than 6,700, including 1,646 women and 825 children. Myanmar’s junta said he did not target civilians and that his operations were in response to attacks by “terrorists” for maintaining peace and stability in the country. ($ 1 = 2,093,7000 Kyat) (Reporting by Reuters Staff, editing by Devjyot Ghoshal)
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