US charges two Myanmar citizens over plot to attack UN ambassador

Pair charged by US prosecutors over conspiracy to ‘seriously injure or kill’ Myanmar’s anti-coup UN envoy Kyaw Moe Tun.

US prosecutors say they have charged two Myanmar citizens over a plot to attack the country’s United Nations ambassador, Kyaw Moe Tun, an outspoken supporter of the democracy movement who has refused orders by the military government to quit. In an alleged conspiracy foiled by US investigators, the pair spoke of hiring assailants to force Kyaw Moe Tun to resign or, if he refused, to kill him, officials said on Friday. The pair “plotted to seriously injure or kill Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations in a planned attack on a foreign official that was to take place on American soil”, said Audrey Strauss, the US attorney for the southern district of New York.