Myanmar citizens deported from Singapore over alleged insurgent ties remanded in custody

REUTERS
July 26, 2019

Thu Thu Aung

YANGON (Reuters) - Six Myanmar nationals deported from Singapore over alleged links to an ethnic minority insurgent group were remanded in custody in Yangon on Friday, a court spokesman said, as relatives of the accused said they were being held incommunicado.

Ohn Tin, the mother of Hein Zaw, the arrested Arakanese Association-Singapore chairperson, speaks to the media outside of Mayangon court in Yangon, Myanmar, July 26, 2019. REUTERS/Myat Kyaw Thu 

“We issued another remand this morning for them,” Min Thant, an information officer at the Western District Court in the commercial capital of Yangon, told Reuters by telephone, without giving further details.

The five men and one woman were arrested in Singapore in early July and later deported to Myanmar, where they were arrested shortly after arriving.

Nine held in Myanmar in Arakan Army fundraising probe

Frontier
MYANMAR

Friday, July 26, 2019 

By AFP

Ko Tin Hlaing Oo from Arakan Association (Singapore) arrives at Yangon International Airport after being deported from Singapore on July 10 along with three others over alleged links to the Arakan Army. (Thuya Zaw | Frontier)

YANGON — Nine people subject to a police probe over fundraising for the Arakan Army in Rakhine State were remanded in custody Friday, including several recently deported from Singapore.

Among the deportees is Ko Aung Myat Kyaw, who is believed to be the brother of Brigadier General Tun Myat Naing, the chief of the AA.

Singapore, six Burmese arrested for supporting Rakhine Buddhist rebels

AsiaNews.it

07/11/2019,

Brother of the military leader of the Arakan Army (Aa) among detained.  The armed group is fighting for greater autonomy in the Rakhine and Chin states.  Also known as Arakan, the territory is at the center of world attention for the Rohingya crisis.  But the clashes between Aa and government troops this year have already caused 35,000 displaced people.

Singapore (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The Singaporean authorities have arrested six citizens of Myanmar, accused of mobilizing support for armed violence against the Naypyidaw government.

The Interior Ministry of the city state said yesterday evening that the group had "organized and mobilized" members of the Burmese community in Singapore to support the Arakan Army (Aa).

The members of the armed group belong to the ethnic minority Rakhine (or arakanese) which, of Buddhist religion, constitutes about 4% of the Burmese population.

Singapore to deport Myanmar nationals linked to insurgent group Arakan Army

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CNA
By Ian Cheng
10 Jul 2019 

Ministry of Home Affairs building in Singapore. 

SINGAPORE: Several Myanmar nationals are to be deported from Singapore after mobilising support for "armed violence against the Myanmar government", the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Wednesday (Jul 10).

Myanmar news website The Irrawaddy named six individuals who it said were arrested in Singapore, including a relative of Arakan Army (AA) chief Tun Myat Naing. 

AA Chief’s Brother, Several Arakanese Arrested in Singapore

The Irrawaddy
By Moe Myint
10 July 2019

Aung Myat Kyaw, the brother of AA chief Major-General Tun Myat Naing, poses for a picture. / Aung Myat Kyaw / Facebook

 

YANGON – A brother of Arakan Army (AA) chief Brigadier-General Tun Myat Naing and five of his colleagues were arrested by Singapore police in separate locations within the city-state this morning, longtime friends of the accused confirm.

ရခိုင်အသင်း (စင်္ကာပူ) ခေါင်းဆောင်များ ရှောင်တခင် ဖမ်းဆီးခံရ

DMG
နေရောင်မင်း | DMG
ဇူလိုင် ၁၀၊ စစ်တွေ

ကိုအောင်မြတ်ကျော် (AA စစ်ဦးစီးချုပ်၏ ညီတော်စပ်သူ)အား တွေ့ရစဉ်။ (Photo - Aung Mrat Kyaw Facebook)

ဇူလိုင်လ ၉ ရက်၊ နံနက်ပိုင်းက စင်္ကာပူနိုင်ငံရှိ ရခိုင်အသင်း(စင်္ကာပူ) Arakan Association (Singapore) ၏ ခေါင်းဆောင်များ သူတို့၏နေအိမ်အသီးသီးတွင် ဖမ်းဆီးခံရသည်။