Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:41 am Post subject: INSIDE BURMA
Political prisoners’ health deteriorating, says report - Shah Paung
Political prisoners who were formerly students are suffering from grave physical and mental health problems, according to the exile group All Burma Federation of Student Unions.
A statement issued by the ABFSU’s foreign affairs committee on Monday blamed the prisoners’ health problems on poor medical treatment, unsanitary conditions and the prolonged prison stay of most political dissidents.
The release detailed the story of Ye Kyaw Zwa, a student dissident now being held in Upper Burma’s Myingyan prison. One of the leaders of the 1996 student demonstrations, he has been suffering from serious depression for about a year.
A former student political prisoner who was held in the same prison as Ye Kyaw Zwa said he had contacted Ye Kyaw Zwa’s family, who told him: “They said he did not talk to them when they visited him. He also did not ask them to bring a book for him to read, as he used to do.”
The ABFSU media release claims Ye Kyaw Zwa had not been receiving the proper medical care for his condition.
According to information released on April 23 by the Thai-Burma border-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), Ye Kyaw Zwa was first arrested and held in Insein and Thayet prisons from 1990 to 1993. He was re-arrested in 1996 and sentenced to 19 years imprisonment.
The head of the ABFSU foreign affairs committee, Min Naing, said “all student political prisoners have to be released if the military government really wants a national reconciliation and a democratization process in the country.”
The ABFSU media release named other students besides Ye Kyaw Zwa who are afflicted with health problems. According to the release, Thet Naung Soe, who carried out a solitary protest in front of Rangoon city hall in 2002, and Kyaw Linn Htun, who was arrested in 2004 because of student union activism, are also suffering skin diseases and severe depression inside Rangoon’s Insein prison. They have similarly been denied adequate medical treatment, the ABFSU release said.
No news is good news from Burma...
I remembered two friends of mine were wrongfully arrested..before 1988..
when they released, they never mentioned anything at all...
we all knew they were tortured but we never knew how...
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