Both were accused of being military informants.
A local administrator appointed by the junta in Mandalay was shot and killed on Sunday evening, while another was hospitalised in a shooting attack the following morning.
Choota, a 60-year-old ten-household administrator, died on the spot when two assailants shot him at close range on his way home from the ward administration office in Aungtharyar, Chanmyathazi Township at 8pm, a resident there said.
“There was a power cut that night and we heard gunshots during the power cut,” he told Myanmar Now. “We were on high alert when they started shooting. We later found out that the ward administrator was assassinated. I heard he was shot in the head and died on the spot.”
Several military vehicles arrived shortly after the shooting and searched the area, he said, but left after 30 minutes. “I don’ t think they found anything.”
Choota had faced several threats recently from local resistance forces after he was accused of informing the military about the activities of anti-coup protesters in his neighbourhood, locals said.
He became a ward administrator in May despite widespread efforts by the Civil Disobedience Movement to cripple the junta’s governance mechanisms by encouraging people to stop working for organisations under the military’s control.
On Thursday two young men in a nearby ward were beaten and arrested by plain clothed soldiers, locals said.
On Monday morning at around 7am attackers shot Aung Moe, also known as Soe Moe Aung, at his home on 58th street in Kantharyar ward, which is also in Chanmyathazi.
Aung Moe, another ten-household administrator, was shot in his chest and arm but was taken to hospital and survived. He has also been accused of being a military informant.
Soldiers stopped and questioned pedestrians in the area after the attack.
No one has claimed responsibility for either attack.
Scores of local administrators have been assassinated across the country in recent months as part of a burgeoning armed resistance movement aimed at overthrowing Min Aung Hlaing’s dictatorship.
In June the junta gave cash handouts of 500,000 kyat to the families of several administrators killed in Yangon, amid criticism from its own supporters that the coup regime was not able to protect its own officials.
source myanmar-now