Tatmadaw True News Information Team has released a statement yesterday night saying that Special Task Agency (STA) was arrested for planning to commit destructive acts in Yangon Region during Maha Thingyan Festival.
Zaw Htet Aung @Nyi Nyi who was a member of STA was arrested at a house situated on Shwe Hlaing Street in Magyeetan (South) Ward in Kyimyindaing Township, Yangon Region, at night of April 4th. Acting on a tip-off from the Nyi Nyi, Ye Min Paing@Ye Ye Min @ Win Lwin Oo was also arrested with Sig Sauer Pistol, Glock Pistol, three pistol cartridges, 44 bullets, 50 plastic cups which will be used in homemade mines, 18 detonators, 9 packs of gunpowder, 200 Carbon rods, Sulphur pack, 13 boxes of iron ball seeds and a bag of scrap-iron at an apartment in Kyaunggyi Street of Zaygyi (East) Ward in Kyinmyindaing Township.
Two detainees confessed that they had attended an explosive training course in a jungle near Kyarinseikkyi Township being controlled by KNLA Brigade -6 in September of 2021. During the training course, they learnt about destructive methods and how to make hand-made mines. Later, the STA was formed with 20 members in February of 2022. In the first week of May, 2023, Zaw Htet Aung and Ye Min Oo brought weapons, ammunitions and related devices for destructive acts from Teza@ Htin Lin and they left for Yangon via Kyarinseikkyi Township. Later, they made hand-made mines as a trail at an apartment of Ye Min Oo. And then they had planned to carry out destructive attacks on a Thingyan Pavilion situated on Kyaunggyi Street in Zaygyi (West) Ward in Kyimyindaing Township, an office of Social Welfare Association in Kyinmyindaing Township and crowded Thingyan pavilions in Yangon Region. If their destructive plans will be succeeded, Soe Thura Tun who was NLD’s former MP representing the Kyungyangone Township will pay 1 million Kyats to them, according to the Tatmadaw True News Information Team.
Tatmadaw True News Information Team also reported that the authorities will take severe actions against the detainees who committed destructive acts.
