Man dies during Myanmar junta interrogation

A person from southwestern Myanmar died throughout a army interrogation between Oct. 19 and 20, revolution teams instructed Radio Free Asia on Monday. Navy officers arrested 20-year-old Soe Paing Oo for allegedly speaking with a Individuals’s Protection Pressure within the nation’s northern area of Mandalay. 

The Ayeyarwady area native, in addition to three others, surrendered to the junta on Oct. 5 throughout a ceremony at Pathein’s Southwestern Regional Navy Headquarters. Junta officers reported the 4 males defected from resistance teams and that they gave every one 300,000 kyats (US$143).

Though locals disputed that the arrested males had been resistance fighters, junta officers offered the lads with certificates noting their give up.

Within the following days, the army officers interrogated Soe Paing Oo, who’s from Kan Thone Sint village in Kyonpyaw township, in addition to one other man from Ngathaingchaung township, the revolution group instructed RFA. 

“They had been welcomed with a ceremony on the Southwestern Regional Navy Headquarters. [Previously], they had been dwelling underneath home arrest,” members of the revolution group stated, asking to stay nameless for concern of reprisals. “A person who surrendered to the junta from Kyonpyaw township was taken and interrogated by the Kyonpyaw military officers. I heard that he died throughout the interrogation and was cremated immediately within the army headquarters.”

Particulars about Soe Paing Oo’s loss of life are nonetheless unknown, and it’s probably he was not affiliated with any Individuals’s Defence Pressure, they added. 

In Ayeyarwady area, many civilians are at the moment in search of the safety of resistance teams. After protesting throughout the 2021 coup, they’re sheltering with Individuals’s Defence Forces to keep away from arrest and can typically give up to junta troops if the group is attacked. 

Regardless of their alleged civilian standing, locals instructed RFA that police had been already investigating Soe Paing Oo and the three different males earlier than they surrendered.

RFA couldn’t verify the situation of the Ngathaingchaung man who was arrested with Soe Paing Oo. 

Round 20 folks in Ayeyarwady area surrendered to the army within the area’s capital of Pathein, in line with junta officers.

In October, junta troops had been accused of forcing Ayeyarwady area locals to meet recruitment quotas for army coaching, together with minors. 

Calls by RFA to Ayeyarwady area’s junta spokesperson Maung Maung Than went unanswered.

Translated by RFA Burmese. Edited by Taejun Kang and Elaine Chan