A former Myanmar navy enlistee, whom the junta sentenced to death for participating in strikes and protests opposing the 2021 coup, died in prison in Yangon on Saturday, according to prisoners’ rights activists.
The 34-year-old serviceman, formerly stationed at Yangon’s Thanlyin naval base, was one of the first among Myanmar’s military personnel to defect to the side of the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), which organised strikes and protests to oppose the military’s seizure of power.
His body was reportedly cremated at a Yangon cemetery on Monday afternoon.
Thike Tun Oo, a steering committee member of the Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM), said that despite authorities’ claims to maintain a water purification system in the prison, inmates were deprived of safe drinking water and given water with high lead levels.
The poisoning that resulted from this eventually damaged Pyae Sone Oo’s kidneys. . .
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