March 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A Rangoon guerrilla group has assured that a prominent legal and economic adviser to the military junta Minn Yayzar Nyunt Tin has died in an operation carried out this past Friday.
Minn, 52, founder of the Biz Law Consult Myanmar law firm, and considered a specialist in money laundering in the service of the coup military, was shot at no less than 13 times in Thanlyin township on Friday afternoon.
The guerrilla group known as the Urban Owls have assumed responsibility for the attack and explained, according to the opposition-linked portal The Irrawaddy, that they waited for the lawyer to be alone because they did not want to “kill any of their relatives.”
According to the portal, Minn Tayzar Nyunt Tin ran companies in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Cambodia, and was also in charge of buying land and apartments for the coup generals and their partners.
Likewise, he is considered one of those responsible for drafting the Burmese Cybersecurity Law, the instrument used by the military to restrict freedom of expression on the country’s social networks since the 2021 coup.
Burma has been mired in a civil war since the coup on February 1 of that year. Since then, more than 3,120 people have died in the framework of the operations carried out by the junta and another 16,432 are still detained, according to data from the Association of Assistance for Political Prisoners of Burma (AAPP).
The Government of National Unity, Burmese’s democratic authorities in exile, has indicated that the Burma Army has committed more than 30 massacres of civilians across the country since the Army’s takeover.
