Human Rights Commission probes death in custody incident in Rakhine

01 June 2019
Human Rights Commission probes death in custody incident in Rakhine
Rathedaung. Photo: Mizzima

The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission has sent a survey team to investigate the shooting deaths early this month of seven civilians held in military custody in troubled Rakhine state’s Kyauk Tan village, where survivors continue to reject the army’s account of a riot by captured villagers, RFA reported.

The incident in Kyauktan on May 2 left six people dead and eight wounded, one of whom died on May 14. They were among 275 people rounded up and held in army custody in a school compound for interrogation about possible connections to the Arakan Army (AA).

Soldiers and eyewitnesses have presented different accounts of what happened in the school compound.