Three residents of Tain Nyo Village of Mrauk U Township have been released after being charged with alleged ties to the Arakan Army following the assassination of the former Mrauk U Township Administrator U Bo Bo Min Thaik in the Rakhine State.
The three residents from Tain Nyo Village - Kyaw Myint, Maung Win Hlaing, and Aye Kyaw Tun - were arrested after a suspect for the former Mrauk U Township Administrator’s murder revealed that they had ties with the Arakan Army.
“After the Mrauk U Township Administrator U Bo Bo Min Thaik was murdered, U Kyaw Myint was arrested in Yangon. U Kyaw Myint claimed that the three men had ties with the AA (Arakan Army) so they were arrested. They were charged under Section 17 (1) (2) of the Unlawful Associations Act. Mrauk U Township Court released them without charging them today,” their lawyer Daw Aye Nu Sein told Narinjara News.
A major from the Tatmadaw filed the charges against them at Mrauk U Township Court and they were arrested under case no (34/2018) and Section 17 (1) (2) of the Unlawful Associations Act.
“They were detained in jail for nearly four months. They were discharged because they had no ties with [the Arakan Army],” said Daw Aye Nu Sein.
Former Mrauk U Township Administrator U Bo Bo Min Thaik was murdered at the entrance of Ponnagyun on the Yangon-Sittwe Highway (Milepost 169/0-1) on the evening of January 30, 2018 while he was travelling from Sittwe to Yangon by car.
The police found that the car U Bo Bo Min Thaik was riding an unlicensed Odyssey vehicle driven by Kyaw Myint (a) Khine Kyaw, a former administrator of Tain Nyo Village. Kyaw Myint (a) Khine Kyaw, his wife Daw Kyi Kyi Win, and son Min Than Htay (a) Min Than Htaik and his wife Khine Zar Hlaing were arrested in Yangon Region.
Kyaw Myint, Maung Win Hlaing, and Aye Kyaw Tun were arrested after Kyaw Myint (a) Khine Kyaw revealed during an interrogation that the three men have ties with the Arakan Army.
