In Myanmar, five months after the coup d'etat, the military continues to detain protesting citizens, and there are now more than 5,200 local human rights groups leading the resistance movement. He points out that fatal torture has been repeated for the purpose of finding out where he is.

In Myanmar, it has been five months in a day since the military claimed that there was fraud in last year's general election and took full control in a coup d'etat.



Citizens' protests continue throughout the country, albeit on a smaller scale, with some groups fighting back with weapons such as guns.

In response to this, the military has applied a thorough crackdown and is detaining the citizens one after another.



According to the local human rights group "Political Prisoners Support Association," the number reached 6421 by the 29th, of which 5224 are still detained.



The military says it treats detainees in accordance with the law, but human rights groups point out that torture of detainees is widespread and systematic, such as to find out where the people leading the resistance movement are. By June 26, there were at least 24 cases of death due to torture.

Detained journalist "tortured"

A journalist man who had been detained by security forces in Myanmar for three months starting in March said he was tortured during his detention, according to an NHK interview.



Nathan Maung, an American journalist from Myanmar, was suddenly captured by the military with a colleague in an office in the largest city of Yangon in March, including facilities of security authorities in Yangon. It means that it was transferred to.



"I was sitting in a chair in a dark room and interrogated with handcuffs in my back. I wasn't allowed to sleep for the first three days," Maun said in an online NHK interview from the United States where he currently lives. I wasn't allowed to drink water for two days. I was repeatedly questioned about the state of the press, and I was beaten no matter what answer I gave, "he said.



Later, when Maung was found to be American, the violence diminished, but a Burmese colleague who was detained with him was tortured even more violently after interviewing a prominent Myanmar democratic activist in the past. It means that it was received.



"My colleague said,'I had my skin burned with cigarettes' and'I had a lump of ice pressed against my foot and told me to give me my cell phone passcode,'" he said.



Mr. Maung was released in June and was able to leave the United States, but his colleagues were still detained and said, "I feel guilty about being released alone. Other journalists and others Political prisoners should have been released together, "he said, and appealed to the international community," I want you to support the people in Myanmar who are being captured. "