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Mizzima: Burmese soldier died in mo



Burmese soldier died in mob's attack for molesting a girl in western
Burma

Dhaka, May 29, 2000
Mizzima News Group

One soldier died and three injured in a mob attack in Sittwe, capital of
Arakan State of Burma last week. On 22nd this month, about 30 people
from Ohntapin Quarter in Sittwe town surrounded and attacked four
Burmese soldiers who physically molested a girl of the same colony.
Around 10:00 p.m. on that day, the four soldiers from Burma Army
(Infantry Battalion No. 20) molested the girl, a resident of House No.
2.

Alarmed and outraged, people from the same colony surrounded the house
and attacked the soldiers. As a result, one soldier died and the other
three got injured but escaped.

At 12:00 o'clock the same night, about 40 soldiers arrived the colony
and arrested one person from each house in the colony. More than 100
residents were tortured and interrogated by the soldiers to reveal the
names of attackers.