PCP member arrested in Khagrachari

A member of the Hill Student’s Council (PCP) has been arrested in Khagrachari today.

 

Mr. Maung Prue Marma s/o Maung Kro Jai Marma was arrested by soldiers from Bhuachari Army Camp from Bot-toli near Khagrachari district town. The army cited his alleged involvement in extortion as the reason for the arrest.

 

The Khagrachari Unit leaders of the PCP ruled out the allegation and said Maung Prue is innocent and lodges in a house in Bot-toli as a private tutor. He hails from Babupara of Mahalchari, the scene of a deadly settler attack in August 2003.

 

Mr. Marma is learnt to have been handed over to the police in Khagrachari, but it is not clear whether any case has been filed against him. His students went to the Khagrachari police station to demand his release.

Prepared by Human Rights Monitoring Cell, United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) on 22 August 2005.