Narinjara News
Akyab, May 22
Army Commander Detained and 20 Soldiers Dispelled After Inner Clash
An army commander has been
detained and 20 soldiers have been dispelled in a northern town of
The detained commander is
major Tun Aung Zan, a
commander in charge of Light Infantry battalion, LIB, 375, based in Nung Pun Hla
“I heard that all soldiers
including the major are Arakanese nationals and the
detentions took place after an inner clash between the Arakanese
major and a Burmese solider” he said.
On 14 April, a private
Burmese soldier tried to assassinate major Tun Aung Zan when he visited a near-by village of his battalion with
his family. In the assassination attempts, his wife, his
mother in law and car driver were killed, but the major escaped the
assassination.
After the assassination
attempt, the assassin ran away to a village monastery to hide, but a platoon
from LIB 375 surrounded the monastery and blocked all gates of the monastery in
order to prevent the assassin from running away.
When the army surrounded up
the monastery, Major Tun Aung Zan
shouted in the Arakanese language that you
would have to know how much red (brave) our Arakanese
blood’. Eventually, the assassin solider killed himself with his gun.
After the incident, Major Tun Aung Zan was detained by
authorities for his use of the Arakanese words “you
would have to know how much red our Arakanese blood”
while shouting at soldiers who surrounded in the monastery.
The other 20 Arakanese soldiers were dispelled by army authorities from
LIB 375 and were told to avoid clashes between Arakanese
and Burmese soldiers in the future.
Now Burmese authorities are
propagating among the public that the assassin solider is not Burman, but a
Shan national, according to several people from Kyauk
Taw. #
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