Screengrab of handout video made available on the United Nations' YouTube channel showing Myanmar's ambassador to the UN Kyaw Moe Tun making a three-finger salute as he addresses an informal meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on February 26, 2021 in New York. (AFP)

US charges two in plot to attack Myanmar’s anti-junta UN envoy

US prosecutors said Friday they had charged two Myanmar citizens in a plot to attack the country's UN ambassador, Kyaw Moe Tun, an outspoken supporter of the democracy movement who has refused junta orders to quit.

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