TANINTHARYI DIVISION – Tanintharyi Township residents said that a male driver of the Chanmyae Parami Health Support Group based in Thara Bwin Village died during a junta council interrogation.
On the 30th of September, the driver Mr. Aung Kyaw Naing was arrested at the Zawe Village junta council checkpoint when he was returning from Myeik City after delivering a patient. According to the locals, after the arrest, Mr. Aung Kyaw Naing and the ambulance he was driving were detained in the Light Infantry Battalion 557 based in Aukkin Village.
Three weeks after his arrest, on October 18, the military council called to inform the family members that Mr. Aung Kyaw Naing had died and asked them to come see the body the next day, said a friend of the deceased.
“I heard that they tortured him till death. I feel very sad and excruciating,” said the friend.
Residents said that 28-year-old Mr. Aung Kyaw Naing was a person who was earning a living for his mother and his brother in 8th grade, and was also a handy youth in the community.
In the past month, a male driver of the Friendship Charitable Association of Mawtong (East) Village from Tanintharyi Township was arrested by the junta council at his home and there has been information about where he had been taken to and no confirmation of whether he’s alive or not.
In May of this year, a 30-year-old resident of Dawei who works in a charity team, Mr. Kyaw Thura (alias Esahat) was arrested by the military council and died in interrogation five days after his arrest.