Armed PDF Terrorists Conduct Disruptive Acts against Education Sector Development in Natmout Township to Create Uneducated Classes in the Society

Ministry of Home Affairs/ Naypyitaw / March 08, 2023

With the aims to create an uneducated society following the loss of children’s rights to education as well as to support them by making people very frightened, the NUG, CRPH, and their subordinates so-called PDF terrorist Groups, which the Government has declared as terrorist organizations, are conducting various kinds of destructive activities across the country such as intimidation and coercion against students, teachers and parents; abductions and killings of students, teachers and parents; arson and bombing attacks on schools. In addition to the acts aforesaid, so-called PDF terrorists, with destructive emotions, are making acts of vandalism against the government’s efforts on education sector development such as putting textbooks and teaching/learning aids to the torch and taking those forcibly.
Since they are committing such terrorist acts, at about 01:15 PM on 4 March, according to the information indicated that a man was dead by gunfire injuries beside the Natmout-Pyawbwe Road located near the no.(2) Basic Education High School in Myoma Ward, Natmout Township, Magway Region, security personnel went to the scene to inspect. The investigation found that the township education officer U Than Htike, 60 years old, (Father) U Kyaw Lin, who lived in Myoma kwatthit Ward, was returning home on a motorcycle from a shop when two male so-called PDF terrorists, also riding on a motorcycle, shot him and fled from the scene. U Than Htike was dead at the scene due to the gunshot injuries, it is reported.
Security personnel are doing required investigations to find and apprehend those terrorists involved in the aforementioned threats and to take legal action against them. The public was urged to oppose the NUG and so-called PDF terrorist groups who committed nefarious acts and participate in protecting security for the future of children by providing the information about terrorists’ movements to concerned administration bodies, it is reported.