Family members have been refused permission to see the bodies of the two young men who were shot dead on Saturday by Burmese soldiers in Pegu, according to the victims' relatives.
Aung Thu Hein, 23, and Soe Paing Zaw, 19, were shot dead execution-style by soldiers from Infantry Battalion 59 of the Southern Regional Military Command, which is based in Pegu, some 50 km north of Rangoon, after a dispute between local men and soldiers at a restaurant.
Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Tuesday, a relative of Soe Paing Zaw said, “The authorities did not allow us to see his body.”
He said that half of the people attending Tuesday's funeral were military authorities and that security was tight on the way to the cemetery. The cremation of the two men had been scheduled for noon on Tuesday but the authorities changed the time to 11 a.m., he added.
According to a medical officer at Pegu General Hospital, Aung Thu Hein had been shot six times while Soe Paing Zaw had been shot four times.
“I heard that no action had been taken against the offenders,” said Aung Thu Hein’s aunt.
State-run radio programs on Myanmar Radio and Padaunt Myae FM reported that the two men had been shot because they tried to wrest weapons from the soldiers.
“Pegu is like an army barracks, because there are so many soldiers, in and out of uniform,” said Myat Hla, the chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Pegu who is currently suspended from his post for demanding the resignation of aging NLD leaders.
A local in Pegu told The Irrawaddy: “I saw local police, firemen and members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association on the way to the cemetery.”
The Union Democratic Party (UDP), whose chairman Thein Htay intends to run in the general election in Pegu Township for the Upper House, on Monday released a statement urging the authorities to take action against the killers.
Source:http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19404
Aung Thu Hein, 23, and Soe Paing Zaw, 19, were shot dead execution-style by soldiers from Infantry Battalion 59 of the Southern Regional Military Command, which is based in Pegu, some 50 km north of Rangoon, after a dispute between local men and soldiers at a restaurant.
Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Tuesday, a relative of Soe Paing Zaw said, “The authorities did not allow us to see his body.”
He said that half of the people attending Tuesday's funeral were military authorities and that security was tight on the way to the cemetery. The cremation of the two men had been scheduled for noon on Tuesday but the authorities changed the time to 11 a.m., he added.
According to a medical officer at Pegu General Hospital, Aung Thu Hein had been shot six times while Soe Paing Zaw had been shot four times.
“I heard that no action had been taken against the offenders,” said Aung Thu Hein’s aunt.
State-run radio programs on Myanmar Radio and Padaunt Myae FM reported that the two men had been shot because they tried to wrest weapons from the soldiers.
“Pegu is like an army barracks, because there are so many soldiers, in and out of uniform,” said Myat Hla, the chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Pegu who is currently suspended from his post for demanding the resignation of aging NLD leaders.
A local in Pegu told The Irrawaddy: “I saw local police, firemen and members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association on the way to the cemetery.”
The Union Democratic Party (UDP), whose chairman Thein Htay intends to run in the general election in Pegu Township for the Upper House, on Monday released a statement urging the authorities to take action against the killers.
Source:http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19404
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