Myanmar Dissident Dies Under Questioning

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Myanmar Dissident Dies Under Questioning
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:11 PM EDT
The Associated Press

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A Myanmar opposition party member died during interrogation and two activists were arrested as the ruling junta pressed its crackdown on the pro-democracy movement, an exile group said Wednesday.

The Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners also said security officers had been threatening dissidents' relatives and neighbors in an attempt to get information on the whereabouts of those involved in last month's anti-government protests, which were brutally suppressed by the military.

The Myanmar exile group, made up of former political prisoners, said authorities had recently informed the family of Win Shwe, 42, that he had died during interrogation in the central region of Sagaing. He and five colleagues had been arrested on Sept. 26, the first day of the crackdown.

The group said Win Shwe, a member of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), was cremated at the detention center. The report could not be independently verified. But in the past, the group has provided detailed, accurate information on political prisoners in Myanmar, also called Burma.

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[micraphone]

1. Situation normal

Nothing to see here. Move on.

Just another murderous regime doing what it does best. We are used to that already.

I do like the cremation bit before the family is informed though, * can learn from that one.

[PretzelWarrior]

3. I notice few comments. some conflicted liberals

on here who on the one hand feel righteous rage these thugs are getting away with wholesale murder of their own people but who on the other hand believe endorsing any overt act of force agains that brutal regime somehow undermines our arguments against going into Iraq.

Well, it doesn't Take out the murderous bastards and tell the others we'll be comin' for them. I expect President Edwards to get RIGHT ON THAT.

[PretzelWarrior]

2. that is one bunker I'd like to see busted

bring on the MOAB. THat fucking military dictatorship should be brought down with one KABBBOOOMMMM followed by a televised message that unelected leaders better stop fucking with innocent civilians.

[fasttense]

4. And torture rears its ugly head again.

Anywhere you see torture, you can bet they are forcing Friedman economics, or "free market", onto the struggling population. So I wonder who is their adviser with the Friedman holy book of economics?

In order to allow corporations to make a killing off the general population, you have to terrorize the population into submission. The best way to terrorize the population, to keep those damn liberals quiet, is to torture them. That's why the US tortures Iraqis.

[Hissyspit]

5. .

[PATRICK]

6. The Roadmap

to Burma. Somehow I doubt Junior can sustain his attention to this matter even if the world's cameras somehow can without the external drama of crowds in the streets. Our nation has no way to help anyone at all anywhere under Junior's grip. Here, our democracy dies with a whimper.