Irrawaddy-May 10
At least 14 National League for Democracy (NLD) members and supporters were killed by pro-regime terror groups in less than two weeks, and the regime was behind the killings, the party’s Central Working Committee said. A committee report stated that since April 21, the pro-regime terror groups Thwe Thout, Kite and Myochit flagrantly raised death threats against party members, elected lawmakers and their families and supporters. According to data compiled as of May 5, at least seven party members and seven staunch supporters were abducted from their homes by those groups in Mandalay, Tanintharyi and Yangon regions, with their dead bodies dumped on streets the next day with the responsible group’s logo on a lanyard. Late last month, junta spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun denied any association with the pro-junta miltias. The committee said on Tuesday that since seizing power by overthrowing the elected, NLD-led government, the regime has arrested 917 party members and of them, 701 remain under detention in the junta’s custody across the country, including the party’s leaders, State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint and 98 elected lawmakers. Since then, the regime has stepped up its efforts to destroy the country’s most popular party with arrests, lawsuits, violence and killings. Read more at: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-jails-ousted-nlds-bago-chief-minister-for-20-years.html
