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Mar 20, 2006 (DVB0 - The funeral ceremony for ex-political prisoner Thet Naing Oo was held at Hteinpin cemetery in western Rangoon on 20 March and it was attended by more than 1000 mourners including the National League for Democracy (NLD) members, veteran politicians, student leaders and other supporters of democracy. The remains of Thet Naing Oo was cremated after people paid their last respect to him by citing prayers and laying down flower garlands. He was beaten to death by members of Rangoon Kyimyintaing (Kemmendine) Township reserve fire brigade and Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) on 17 March during a brawl. Thet Naing Oo was actively involved in the 1988 nationwide pro-democracy uprising and subsequently joined the armed student group, the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) in the jungles. In 1998, he was captured by the authorities and sentenced to 14 years in prison and released in November 2002. “He has a good heart and carries out duties for other people,” his mother San Yi told DVB. “I believe that he is an invaluable son who does not care for his own life in order to selflessly carry out his duties for the majority. Whatever difficulties he faced, as he went to the jungles, I always missed him and felt sad. He is always in my mind. But on the other hand, I am feeling proud for a son who selflessly works for the benefits of the majority by sacrificing his life and left this world. I can comfort myself in the thoughts that he is a valuable son.”

Intelligence agents and security personnel also came to the funeral and took the pictures of the mourners.

Ref Site: Democratic Voice of Burma

Mar 20, 2006 (DVB0 - A member of Rangoon Insein Township Phawkkan evangelical church, Yeh Zaw who was arrested at a police checkpoint in Karen State capital Pa-an on 25 February was transferred to Pa-an Jail on 16 March. Yeh Zaw was arrested after he returned from the Burmese border town Myawaddy where his brother in law lives, to Rangoon and he was later separately interrogated and beaten up by the army personnel based in Pa-an. Although he was arrested for not carrying identity card with him, he was charged under Act (420-406) for lying, according to his wife Sa Eh who went to see him at the prison recently. “I went to see him yesterday and as I was followed by the police, he dared not say much. He was afraid,” said Sa Eh.

Yeh Zaw was arrested and detained because he wrote a letter with other church leaders to the ruling military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) chairman Gen Than Shwe to end religious persecutions of the local authorities on his church members.

Reference Cited from: Democratic Voice of Burma

Mar 20, 2006 (DVB) - A Burmese citizen who had been working in Japan for 13 years committed suicide on 14 March by jumping off a building from the 8th floor after he was refused the permission to return to Burma. 37-year old Kachin national Zau Nang whose health condition was also not good, committed suicide after his request to return to Burma was rejected by officials at the Burmese embassy in Tokyo. “He had been in Japan for a long time. He didn’t pay tax at the embassy. He has the disease and he was feeling dejected. He had depression,” a close friend of his told DVB. “His health condition became very bad in February…None of his lung, kidney was good. His legs became swollen and mucus came out and he had frequent operations. As he wanted to go home he discussed it with his manager. If he could not go home he would commit suicide he said. As the manager was very worried, he looked for a way to send him home. He (the manager) thought that if he (Zau Nang) has a recommendation letter from a doctor, he might be able to go home. And he took his passport and the doctor’s letter and went to the Burmese embassy to apply for (the permission to return to Burma).” The officials at the embassy recognised and acknowledged the authenticity of the doctor’s letter, but told Zaw Nang that he could not return to Burma because he didn’t pay tax and he himself didn’t have the money to pay the tax, his close friend said.

“In whatever embassy of the international community, people tend to help their citizens when they are in trouble, don’t they,” he added. “The military government and this embassy only seem to cause problems to their own people.”

Reference Cited from: Democratic Voice of Burma