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Myanmar Military-Backed Party Official Assassinated
USDP Bilin Township chair U Myint Swe. / USDP Mon State / Facebook
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By The Irrawaddy 27 May 2021
A local official of the Myanmar military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) was shot dead in Mon State in southern Myanmar on Thursday morning.
Two unidentified motorcyclists opened fire on U Myint Swe and his wife while they were on their way to their farm in Arrlulay village, Bilin Township around 8:15am, according to the USDP’s Mon State branch.
“He was shot in the head and died on the spot and his wife was injured in the jaw,” a local said. His wife was transported to a military hospital. The funeral will be held right away, the local added. The USDP’s Mon State branch also confirmed U Myint Swe’s death.
U Aung Toe, who headed the Supreme Court for more than 22 years, boasted in 2008 of delivering a constitution that preserved the military’s ‘leading role’ in politics.