A soldier then asked him why he was sitting and beat him. “Once I got to the interrogation center, I tried not to have any hope,” he says.Ī police officer told him to sit down, so he did. The artist was taken to the police station, and then to Shwe Pyi Thar interrogation center in Yangon, where he was held for four days. “This is it for me, you know?”īut the local police soon arrived, and told the soldiers they couldn’t kill the young men.
“They were about to kill us,” the artist recalls. When he awoke, he heard a soldier say, “Hey, just kill these guys already.” Another soldier warned him that there were CCTV cameras nearby, and they began dismantling the cameras. THE ARTIST: “I TRIED NOT TO HAVE ANY HOPE”Ī 21-year-old artist was arrested by security forces during a protest and beaten in the head with a baton until he passed out. “I told myself that I could die here….I kept thinking, how could they be inflicting this kind of excruciating pain towards other human beings?” he says. After his father paid more money, he was released.
They drafted a confession statement he was forced to sign. There, soldiers beat him with a rubber baton and kept him in a pitch dark room for so long that he lost track of where he was. But soldiers immediately transported him to another interrogation center, Shwe Pyi Thar. He was released from 9-Mile only after his family paid money to officials. “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.
THIS IS THE POLICE 2 INTERROGATION PETER KNUDSEN SERIES
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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