{"id":10997,"date":"2025-07-13T04:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=10997"},"modified":"2025-07-13T04:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T04:55:56","slug":"usdp-party-chairman-killed-in-field-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=10997","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;USDP Party Chairman Killed in Field Shooting&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>13 July 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U Sai Ngaw Saing Hein, a former member of the Pyithu Hluttaw who won three consecutive elections, was assassinated yesterday while working in a rice field in Mauk Mae Township, Southern Shan State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident occurred at 9 am when U Sai Ngaw Saing Hein was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while on his way to work in the rice field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn July 11, 2025, at 9 am, while working in a field in Shan State (South), U Sai Ngaw Saing Hein, the Chairman of the Union Solidarity and Development Party, was shot dead by a terrorist gunman. We are deeply saddened to hear of his death at the scene. May U Sai Ngaw Saing Hein rest in peace,\u201d announced Cherry Land, a USDP page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the 2021 coup, the Union Solidarity and Development Party has seen at least 2,000 of its members killed, and the group responsible for the assassination of U Sai Ngaw Saing Hein has yet to claim responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U Sai Ngaw Saing Hein, who was 62 years old at the time of his assassination, was a dedicated teacher who worked tirelessly for regional development, regardless of race or religion. He had won elections in 2010, 2015, and was a candidate in the 2020 elections, which were annulled due to allegations of vote rigging. He was also preparing to contest in the upcoming 2025 elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#USDP #Mauk Mae #U Sai Ngaw Saing Hein #mtnews update<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 July 2025 U Sai Ngaw Saing Hein, a former member of the Pyithu Hluttaw who won three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10999,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions\/10999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}