Htike Zaw

Htike Zaw (Burmese: ထိုက်ဇော်; also spelt Hteik Zaw or Htaik Zaw, 4 October 1967 – 21 November 2020) was a Burmese politician who was elected MP for the Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House) from Shan State constituency No 1. He was assassinated for being the political dissatisfaction with the recent general election result at his home in Pin Tain village in Kyaukme Township.[1][2][3][4]

In this Burmese name, the given name is Htike Zaw. There is no family name.
MP
Hteik Zaw
ထိုက်ဇော်
Member-elect of the House of Nationalities
Preceded byZaw Min Latt
ConstituencyShan State № 1
Personal details
Born(1967-10-04)4 October 1967
Taungdwingyi, Myanmar
Died21 November 2020(2020-11-21) (aged 53)
Pin Tain village, Kyaukme
Political partyNational League for Democracy
SpouseOhnmar
Children2
OccupationPolitician

Early life and career

Hteik Zaw was born on 4 October 1967 in Taungdwingyi, Magway Region, Myanmar to parents Zaw Win and Khin Oo Myint. He finished higher education.[5] He moved to Kyaukme as a forest ranger a few years before the 8888 pro-democracy uprising. He was married to a Kyaukme native Ohmar and settled in Kyaukme. He opened a general store in his home.[6]

Political career

In 2012, he joined the National League for Democracy. In the 2020 Myanmar general election, he won a seat in the Amyotha Hluttaw from Shan State № 1 parliamentary constituency. His opponents in that race were Kyaw Sein from the Union Solidarity and Development Party, Soe Ko Khine from the Union Solidarity Party, Sai Tun Lin from the Union Betterment Party, Sai Sam Lian from Shan Nationalities League for Democracy and Nwe Ni Tun from the Ta'ang National Party. He was involved in a dispute over the results of the 2020 election.[7]

Assassinated

On 21 November 2020, he was shot dead by unidentified armed men at his home in Pin Tain village in Kyaukme Township.[8] His funeral was held on 23 November at Kyaukme Cemetery. His final journey was accompanied by the Shan State Chief Minister Linn Htut, many high-ranking government officials, political colleagues and hundreds of people.[9][10]

Reactions

The National League for Democracy Party (main) subsequently condemned the violence and expressed its condolences to the victim's family in a statement.[3]

Christian Lecherv, the French ambassador to Myanmar, strongly condemned in a statement the cowardly assassination and called for those responsible to be brought to justice.[3]

The US Embassy in Yangon expressed its condolences to the victim's family in a statement.[3]

Dr. Min Zaw Oo, the executive director of the Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security, told the media that the assassination could mark the beginning of a culture of political violence.[3]

The United Nations in Myanmar in a statement condemned the assassination and hope those responsible can be swiftly identified and brought to justice.[11]

References
  1. "NLD MP-elect shot dead in Kyaukme". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 21 November 2020.
  2. "ကျောက်မဲ ဦးထိုက်ဇော် ပစ်သတ်ခံရမှု နိုင်ငံရေးကြောင့်ဟု NLD ယူဆ". VOA (in Burmese). 22 November 2020.
  3. "Election 2020 | Myanmar's Parties Demand Justice for Assassinated Shan State Newly Elected MP". The Irrawaddy. 23 November 2020.
  4. "Myanmar's ruling party denounces post-poll violence after MP-elect shot dead". Sangbad Pratidin (in Hindi). 22 November 2020.
  5. "ဦးထိုက်ဇော် - အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်ပါတီ". mVoter 2020 (in Burmese).
  6. "လူကိုလုပ်ကြံရသော်လည်း အမည်ကိုဖျက်ဆီးမရ". 7Day News. 25 November 2020.
  7. "ပူပူနွေးနွေး ရွေးကောက်ခံ ဒီချုပ်အမတ်တစ်ဦး ကျောက်မဲမှာ ပစ်သတ်ခံရ". 7Day News. 21 November 2020.
  8. "NLD ကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်း ကျောက်မဲတွင် ပစ်သတ်ခံရ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 21 November 2020.
  9. "သေနတ်ဖြင့် ပစ်ခတ်ခံခဲ့ရသည့် ဦးထိုက်ဇော်၏ စျာပနအား ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်လိုက်ပါပို့ဆောင်". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 23 November 2020.
  10. "Shooting Death of Newly Elected Myanmar Lawmaker Condemned as 'Lawless Act'". Radio Free Asia. 23 November 2020.
  11. "Statement on the Killing of U Htike Zaw | United Nations in Myanmar". myanmar.un.org.
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