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Civilian found to have died in junta custody after month-long search

A month after telling the family of the 28-year-old civilian man that they had freed him, junta personnel acknowledged that he died during an interrogation but have not returned the body

Military authorities admitted that a Mandalay resident was killed in their custody more than four weeks after he went missing and authorities told his family he had been released unharmed, sources close to the family said on Tuesday.

Aung Myint Myat, 28, worked as a house painter. He left home for a job in Ohn Chaw village in Mandalay Region’s Patheingyi township on the evening of July 17, and went missing on his way back to Mandalay, a trip that would normally take around 30 minutes by car or motorbike. 

Having started a search for him, family members and friends learned that Aung Myint Myat had been detained at the general administration office in the township’s Kyauk Mee village, some four miles northwest of Ohn Chaw on the road back to Mandalay. 

Authorities told the family he had been released the same night, Aung Myint Myat. . .

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