Shwe Marn and Min Kyi friend fled to Thailand for escape

Independent Mon News Agency

April 19, 2004

One Mon,who parents joined UN and he also come from Pegu, in east of Rangoon, left his family to free from arrest of the Burmese government authority and arrived in Thai-Burma border after have interrogated.

Nai Mraok Done is a friend of Shwe Marn and Min Kyi who contacted with ILO and have been sentenced to death by the military government .Because of being friend with them Mraok also been interrogated and checked by the government Military Intelligent (MI) many time.

Nai Mraok Done is a Pegu youth member and his parents are the member of People Patriotic Party, led by U Nu and they joined UN as a refugee and moved to United State four years ago.

“When the government arrested Shwe Marn and Min Kyi and also when MI examined Shwe Marn and Mi Kyi house, they came examined everything in my home too When MI cant find nothing, they changed aspect about my parents, joined UN again,” Nai Mraok said with slow depression voice.

“From that time, MI came to my home regularly and asked about my parents and interrogated me that do I make contact with outside organization, made appointment with me to go to Thailand, accused me as a trafficker,” Mraok added.

“I can’t stay there longer, whatever I can’t stay there longer because MI came to my house and ask me to go to their office .Beside they tried to arrest me on the road such the manners that they did on me many time,” Mraok said depress fully.

Mraok worked with Shwe Marn and Min Kyi for the Mon community in Pegu and he is also a TV repairer in Pegu and had a baby. His parents are U Aung Myat and Daw Kalar Ma Nyaut, a leader of People Patriotic Party in Mon group.

His parents left him since he was two years old and after that, he lived in Thailand for more than 28 years as the opposition activists.

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