{"id":34884,"date":"2021-08-07T04:49:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/06\/myanmar-arrests-plot-ambassador-united-nations-kyaw-moe-tun"},"modified":"2021-08-07T04:49:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:49:02","slug":"myanmar-duo-arrested-in-new-york-over-plot-to-kill-un-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34884","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar duo arrested in New York over plot to kill UN ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pair charged with conspiracy \u2018to assault and make a violent attack\u2019 on Myanmar\u2019s UN envoy, Kyaw Moe Tun<\/p>\n<p>Two Myanmar citizens have been arrested in New York state for plotting with an arms dealer in Thailand \u2013 who sells weapons to the Burmese military \u2013 to kill or injure Myanmar\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The US attorney\u2019s office for the southern district of New York said on Friday that Phyo Hein Htut, 28, and Ye Hein Zaw, 20, had each been charged with one count of conspiracy to assault and make a violent attack upon a foreign official, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/06\/myanmar-arrests-plot-ambassador-united-nations-kyaw-moe-tun\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pair charged with conspiracy \u2018to assault and make a violent attack\u2019 on Myanmar\u2019s UN envoy, Kyaw Moe TunTwo Myanmar citizens have been arrested in New York state for plotting with an arms dealer in Thailand \u2013 who sells weapons to the Burmese military \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34885,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34884\/revisions\/34885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}