Beaten villager case has unreasonable ending, family says

Independent Mon News Agency

November 4, 2004

The case of a patient in the Thanpyuzayart town hospital ended with the unreasonable denial by the Burmese military commander in the area that the soldier who beat the patient ran away, according to the patient’s family.

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The patient, Nai Hamard, 44, has been taking treatment for serious wounds after he was beaten by three soldiers of the Southeast Military Command No.4 military training battalion in Waekali, Thanpyuzayart township, while reaping rice in the paddy on his farm about one mile from the battalion on Oct. 26 .

“Although he got permission from the commander, Col. Khin Maung Ze, to reap the paddy, he was beaten by corporal Aung Myit’s groups that barred him from reaping the paddy with the reason that his farm was in an army area, a few days before he was beaten,” his family added.

“We complained to the commander to take action against corporal Aung Myit on the day before yesterday. But commander Col. Khin Maung Ze said corporal Aung Myit ran away and disappeared,” a family member said. “We have returned back not satisfied with the commanders,” the family said.

Nai Abair, a relative of Nai Hamard who came to see him in the hospital said, “the Burmese army is crueler than the Japanese army that people said was the cruelest army in World War Two.”

In Thanpyuzayart township, the army confiscated more than 2,000 acres of land in thie area near Nai Hamard”s farm where he was beaten. Most of the people in the area are farmers who rely on their farms.

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