“Then they zapped me the second time, and then I passed out again.” “I was shaking so much it felt like I was going to die,” he says. While he was drenched, they shocked him with electric probes. They woke him by dumping ice water on his head. They hit him only in places that could be hidden by clothing. The soldiers kicked him in the chest and hit his back with a PVC pipe until it broke. Later, other soldiers tied him to the wall and beat him. When the accountant denied any link, the soldier dragged him to the ground by the nape of his neck and forced him to kneel. He was blindfolded and driven to 9-Mile Interrogation Center in Yangon.Ī soldier demanded to know if he had anything to do with a series of bombings, and told him there was a morgue and crematorium in the compound. … Then they shot us with the slingshot.”Ī 21-year-old accountant’s interrogation started at a police station, where soldiers kicked him in the arms, thighs and ribs, and hit him in the head and back. ”If they were drunk, they also tended to come to us and ask why we were saying our prayers at a certain time. “Sometimes, especially when they were drunk, they tended to torture the prisoners,” he says.
If they lifted their heads, the prison guards shot them with a slingshot. Prisoners urinated in a corner of the cell and defecated into plastic bags.Īfter six days, he was sent to a police station and then a nearby prison, where he was jammed into a cell with 50 other prisoners.Īt night, they had to lay down on the floor. Then they took him to a cell with no toilet. “The interrogation camp in the palace was really like hell,” he says. The soldiers forced the monk to change into civilian clothing and sent him to a torture center set up in Mandalay Palace. They also photographed the monk and other protesters with gasoline bottles to manufacture evidence of criminal intent. Security forces kicked him in the head, chest and back.
A 31-year-old monk was grazed with a bullet while running from the military, handcuffed and beaten with batons and rifles.
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