Shans beaten and burned to death on suspicion

Shans beaten and burned to death on suspicion

Two Shans in southern Shan State were recently detained and beaten on suspicion of assisting the resistance, reported a source on 26 May.

The two suspects, Zayya, Secretary of the Laizan Tract Peace and Development Council, Kunhing Township, and Zaiman, a villager, were taken into custody by Capt. Than Htun of LIB 524 (Kunhing) on 19 May.

Both were beaten and burned in order to extract information about the Shan State Army of Yawdserk and their confessions. It was learned that Zayya died sometime afterwards but Zaiman's fate was still unknown at the time of his reporting. 

Burmese forces in Kunhing made headlines last year with indiscriminate killings leading to a written protest by the Joint Action Committee led by the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, the party that won the most seats in the Shan State in 1990 General Elections.