June 20th, 2022
The video record released by the RFA was recorded by the soldiers at Pinsi Basic Education High School (branch) in Ponnakar village located about three miles from the west of Montaingpin in Ye-U Township in Sagaing Region on May 12th, captain Khant Ko who joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) confirmed via his social media.
“On that day, 40 villagers were arrested. Of the detainees, the soldiers killed Ko Aung Myo Htet, 26, by cutting him into three parts and covering his bodies with sand in the south of the school. The military released the remaining detainees,” he writes.
The RFA said that it has got 144 photos including a selfie video file in which soldiers themselves admitted that they killed many persons including 26 persons.
In the photos, five persons are lying in a pool of blood with the gunshots in the back of their heads, their eyes tied with longyi and their hands tied behind back. The persons who recorded that video are standing beside the bodies of those killed.
According to some photo evidence, the soldiers are from No.4 Company, No.708 Battalion under the No.708 Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) under the Yangon Region Military Operation Command and the units under the North-West Command based in Sagaing Region.
Sent by Say Kaung Kham (Shan-ni voice)
