"Five men shown being beaten by Myanmar military soldiers in a video that went viral on Saturday are ethnic Rakhine residents of Kyaukseik Village in Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State, their relatives have confirmed to The Irrawaddy. The video that went viral on social media shows the five men with their faces covered and their hands tied behind their backs being beaten by soldiers on a ship. Secretary of the All Arakanese Solidarity Committee U Saw Thein Maung said his nephew is one of the men. “My nephew is the one in the white vest who said in the video that he is a coolie. He does work as a coolie. He is a general laborer at Aung Myittar rice mill near the [Ponnagyun] town.” The five were accused by the Myanmar military of being members of the Arakan Army (AA) and were detained on suspicion of playing a role in recent bombings between Kyaukseik Village and Ponnagyun Township. Myanmar military soldiers detained 38 villagers from Kyaukseik on April 19 and released 33 of them the following day but opened cases against the remaining five under the Counterterrorism Law. They were handed over to the Ponnagyun Township police at the local police station on April 23 but the Myanmar military took them from the station on April 27 and beat them on board a naval ship, according to U Saw Thein Maung. “They took [the five detainees] from the police station on April 27 and returned them on April 30 to Police Station 1 [in the Rakhine State capital of Sittwe]. Police Station 1 handed them over again to the Ponnagyun Township police station on May 7,” said U Saw Thein Maung..."