Three elderly people released from detention
Oct 19, 2007
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U Ba Hmin, an 85-year-old Pakokku resident, was released by authorities about five days ago, along with U Than Oo, the owner of a monks’ accessory store, and gold shop owner U Kyaw Htay, both of whom are over 70 years old.
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Reporting by Aye Nai
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Bago couple arrested for challenging government protests
Oct 19, 2007
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Ni Ni Mai stood in the doorway and challenged them about their support for the violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations, embarrassing some members of the group.
“My sister asked the protestors if they really agreed with the killing of monks and civilians in Rangoon, and the government protestors stopped chanting slogans and some of them dropped their placards,” Ni Ni Mai’s sister told DVB.
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Reporting by Maung Too
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Family members speak about teen protestor’s death
Oct 19, 2007
Oct 19, 2007 (DVB)–Family members of Maung Thet Paing Soe, a 16-year-old protestor who was shot dead during last month’s demonstrations, have spoken to DVB about his death.
Maung Thet Paing Soe was shot in front of Tamwe High School (3) on 27 September when government security forces fired on young students protesting outside the school.
Daw Thuzar, Maung Thet Paing Soe’s aunt, described what happened when the family heard the news of his death.
"We were told by a friend of Thet Paing Soe, on the day, that he had been shot and had died. We went to the school immediately and looked for his body. But bystanders there told us it had already been taken by troops who came in two military trucks. We couldn't go after it as the curfew was in force. We saw the body the next day," she said.
"There was a big hole on the back of his head and the brain was gone. We assume it was a gun-shot wound."
Authorities refused to give a copy of Thet Paing Soe's death certificate, which would have shown his cause of death, to family members.
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Reporting by Aye Nai
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