A newspaper affiliated with the Military Council in Myanmar reported today, Friday, that the army had arrested a six -year -old girl as part of a “terrorist” group; She was killed by a retired army officer, last month.
Zhou Hatton Ong, 68, a retired general, was killed as an ambassador, with bullets in Yangon, the commercial capital of Myanmar, on May 22, in one of the most prominent assassinations in a country witnessing an escalating civil war.
The newspaper “Global New Light of Myanmar” said: “16 criminals have been arrested,” 16 criminals have been arrested. 13 male and three females.
In accompanying visual materials, the newspaper published the image of the six -year -old, who was known as the alleged killer.
The features of the girl were blocked in the electronic version of the newspaper, which was seen by “Reuters”, but appeared in other publications of the authorities of the Military Council on social media.
The rebel “Golden Valley Warriors” group, anti -Military Council, said in a statement that it had killed the retired general because of his continuous support for military operations, especially attacks on civilians.
The Military Council claims that the group is backed by the government fighting the army, known as the “government of national unity”. The newspaper said that the group paid a murderer for the killing.
But a spokesman for the “National Unity Government”, Nay von, did not denied that the shadow government had paid any amounts. He said, “It is not true that we pay money for people to kill others.”
