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Local NLD Leader Shot Dead in Shan State
By SAN YAMIN AUNG / THE IRRAWADDY| Friday, June 6, 2014 |

RANGOON — A village representative for Burma’s main opposition party was found shot to death on Thursday morning in a village near the Shan State capital of Taunggyi, a local National League for Democracy (NLD) leader said.

Tin Maung Toe, chairman of the Taunggyi District’s NLD office, said that the victim, Sai San Tun, 47, had been helping local villagers fighting to get back land confiscated by the Burmese military. He was also the vice chairman of the NLD office in Ming Pyin village, which is 30 miles away from the southern Shan State town of Hopone, Tin Maung Toe said.

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