Ethnic leader assassinated
Posted on January 27, 2010
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Min Ein
The general secretary of the National Democratic Alliance Army- Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS) was killed this morning after being shot by an unidentified gunman reports the Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN).
Details of the shooting were vague. However, according to SHAN, the Network Media Group is reporting that Min Ein also known as Lin Hongshen was shot while taking his morning walk in front of his house at around 6:00 this morning.
Mongla residents have been instructed to remain inside their homes. And outgoing vehicles are not being allowed past checkpoints.
The NDAA and their close allies in Shan State, the Shan State Army North and the United Wa State Army, together with the Kachin Independence Army and New Mon State Party, have been under pressure from Burma’s ruling military junta.
Tensions in the area have been high ever since tens of thousands of refugees fled into China in August after fighting erupted in northern Shan State between the Burma Army and ethnic Kokang resistance groups (see: Ethnic Kokang flee to China).
Last year, the ceasefire groups rejected a proposal put forward by the junta for them to transform into Border Guard Forces under the command of the Burmese military.
The State Peace and Development Council as the junta likes to be known has a history of political assassination towards opposition ethnic groups. Most famously, gunmen killed Karen National Union general-secretary Padoh Mahn Sha at his home in Mae Sot in February 2008 (see: In Memoriam).
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