Myanmar: nine pro-democracy defender raided and arrested, one killed
Event- Country
- Myanmar
- Initial Date
- Jul 31, 2021
- Event Description
A 22-year-old anti-coup protester who was shot and injured before being detained during a raid in Mandalay on Saturday morning has died in military custody, two protest organisers have told Myanmar Now.
Ye Yint was among nine protesters who were detained when about 30 soldiers and police raided a house they were staying in in Patheingyi Township’s Nan Oo Lwin neighbourhood.
He was shot in the pelvis while another young protester, 22-year-old Khaing Tun, was shot in the leg during the raid.
“Two kids tried to run in panic and one was shot in his leg,” said one of the protest organisers. “The other one got shot in the back and the bullet went cleanly through his pelvis.”
The detainees were brought to Mandalay Palace, which houses the military’s Central Command headquarters, and Ye Yint’s family was told at around 4pm that he had died, the second organiser said: “His wife told us.”
As of 8pm, the family still had not been able to retrieve his body, the organiser added. Myanmar Now was unable to reach his relatives for comment.
Three other protesters were detained in Mandalay on the morning that Ye Yint and Khaing Tun were shot.
They were captured in Mahar Aung Myay Township after a military-owned vehicle rammed into their motorcycles as they rode back from a march led by Mandalar University students. One of those detained, Zin Myo Khant, is 17 years old.
Late last month Thu Thu Zin, 25, was shot in the head and killed at a protest near the Mahamuni pagoda in Mandalay. Her family had to hold her funeral without her body because the military would not let them retrieve it.
- Impact of Event
- 9
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Killing
- Raid
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to liberty and security
- Right to life
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Pro-democracy defender
- Youth
- Perpetrator-State
- Armed forces/ Military
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 16.80253913129452
Longitude: 96.16235676856616
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 31 July 2021, nine pro-democracy defender had their house raided by the police and military and were arrested, Ye Yint and Khaing Tun, two youth, were shot and the latter died in Mandalay, Myanmar.