Villagers Demand Answers as Myanmar Rights Commission Visits Rakhine Shooting Site

RFA
2019-05-31

The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission conducts interviews with villagers at Kyauk Tan village, scene of a deadly army shooting early this month, May 31, 2019.
Myanmar National Human Rights Commission

The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission has sent a survey team to investigate the shooting deaths early this month of seven civilians held in military custody in troubled Rakhine state’s Kyauk Tan village, where survivors continue to reject the army’s account of a riot by captured villagers.

Both Gunshots Wounded from Kyauk Tam and Lark Kar Villages Died in Yangon Hospital

Narinjara

By Thein Zaw ( Mgdaw), 16 May 2019 

The two villagers from Lark Kar Village of Mrauk Oo, and Kyauk Tam Village of Rathidaung Township, who were shot during the firing, have died due to critical conditions while receiving medical treatment in Yangon hospital.

35 more detainees suspected of linking with insurgent groups freed in Myanmar

Xinhua
Source: Xinhua
2019-05-09

YANGON, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Thirty-five more detainees, suspected of linking with an ethnic insurgent group, the Arakan Army (AA), have been freed after they were found not in connection with the group, said a release of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Services late Wednesday.

The release of the 35 suspects on Wednesday, following the 174 freed two days earlier, has brought the total released to 209 out of 275 detained.

Myanmar Army Rounds Up Hundreds of Rakhine Villagers For Questioning

RADIO FREE ASIA  
2019-05-01

Three people walk along a road during a government-organized visit for journalists in Buthidaung township close to a surge in fighting between the Arakan Army and government troops in western Myanmar's Rakhine state, Jan. 25, 2019.

Myanmar’s military has rounded up several hundred people in several villages in Rakhine state for questioning about their ties to the Arakan Army (AA), holding 275 men after releasing women, children, and the elderly, local sources told RFA’s Myanmar Service on Wednesday.