Family members of a 39-year-old woman arrested during a Friday night crackdown by the junta in the Magwe Region town of Pakokku were notified on Saturday that they needed to retrieve her body from the local hospital’s morgue.
Marlar Win lived in Pakokku’s No. 1 ward and was shot in the thigh by armed forces during an attack on a nighttime demonstration there on Friday. The injury left her unable to run from the regime’s soldiers and police when they came to arrest protesters, a neighbour said.
“She was shot just in front of her house. She was still clenching her fists when we received her body,” the neighbour said.
The bone in Marlar Win’s thigh was broken and there were bruises on her face when her body was retrieved, she added.
“It is very terrible. Our people are living in constant fear. Our nights are not safe anymore,” the neighbour told Myanmar Now.
Marlar Win is survived by her husband, son and two daughters. Her funeral is scheduled to be held on Sunday afternoon and her body will be cremated, according to locals.
During the March 19 crackdown, seven protesters were arrested, two of whom were severely injured. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
There are several reports of similar incidents where people, including the National League for Democracy (NLD) officials, died in the custody of security forces after being arrested.
Khing Maung Latt, ward chair for the NLD in Yangon’s Pabedan Township died on March 7 after the regime’s armed forces took him from his home during a nighttime raid carried out the previous day.
Family members of Zaw Myat Linn who ran the “Suu” vocational institute in Yangon’s Shwepyitha Township were informed of his death on March 9 after he was arrested the day before.
