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AYEYAWADDY DIVISION – Residents reported that the house of a charity foundation leader who was on the run due to a warrant issued by the terrorist junta was raided and his wife was arrested on Friday (December 8), in Pathein City.
When Mr. Zaw Thant’s wife, the 45 years old Ms. Thinzar Aung (aka Ange Ma) was at their home (in Ward No. 6, at the corner of Myopat and Hlesu Roads) the military council troops (Policemen and Pyu Saw Htee members) arrived in six military vehicles and arrested her at around 8:30 p.m.
“Soldiers and police jumped out of the car and raided the house. Then they said they were checking the guest. Those soldiers on the street and in the house were pointing guns. I thought their leader was drunk yelling and cursing inside the house and asking where he was and to hand him over. Since the house was close to the road, the yelling could be heard,” said a witness.
The military troops reportedly searched the house for almost two hours but did not find Mr. Zaw Thant, they then took his wife into custody and confiscated her mobile phone.
The arrestee, Ms. Thinzar Aung, is making and selling rice noodles along with her 12-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter. Currently, the children are sent to their relatives.
“I still don’t know where she was taken. Neither the police station nor the ward office said they had her. Her husband was into social and community issues but the wife didn’t know anything about that. Now, the family is worried about the wife who was beaten and arrested by military thugs,” said a neighbor.
A former member of the Local Law Support Group in Ayeyarwaddy Division criticized that the act of arresting Ms. Thazin Aung is not consistent with the law and is also illegal and abusive.
Mt. Zaw Thant, who was wanted by the military coup and sued under Article 505, is a goldsmith as well as the leader of a charity foundation. Although he had participated in the protest against the military coup, he was not a member of a political party but an ordinary civilian.
According to members of the ward administration, Mr. Zaw Thant has not been back in the neighborhood for almost three years since the military council oppressed and shot the protestors (and issued him a warrant).