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BURMA: AHRC condemns death sentence for torture victim

(Hong Kong, May 10, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission has described the verdict of a court in Rangoon, sentencing a torture victim to death for his purported role in a bombing, as "farcical" and a "cut-and-paste" job, and has called for his release through the intervention of outside agencies.

District Judge Aung Thein presiding over a closed court in the central prison on Tuesday convicted the accused, Phyo Wai Aung, in four cases concerning the bombing of a festival in April 2010. The judge sentenced Phyo Wai Aung to death for abetting the murder of 10 people who died in the bombing, and to a total of 39 years in prison for a range of other offences.

The AHRC on Thursday morning released an urgent appeal with details of the verdicts: BURMA: Court sentences ailing Phyo Wai Aung to death after patently unjust trial

Speaking after the issuance of the appeal, the director of the Hong Kong-based regional human rights group, Wong Kai Shing, said that the verdicts showed that Burma's judiciary was clearly set in the authoritarian practices of old and had not been affected behaviourally by recent political changes.

"As the court could reach this farcical verdict only by ignoring legal grounds and instead working on the basis of some orders from elsewhere, we have no choice also but to call for a review of the case and intervention by those authorities with the power to overturn the death sentence, and secure the release of the accused," Wong said.

The court appeared to have just cut and paste its findings from one verdict to the next across the four cases, repeating the same points with little variation in contents, except as required for the specific elements of each charge, he commented.

"For the sake of his life, the people in positions to be able to get Phyo Wai Aung out of prison need to do something now," Wong added, pointing to a letter by the brother of the defendant expressing fears about his health due to liver disease, Hepatitis-B and tuberculosis.

Wong pointed out that the case highlighted the need for legal reform efforts in Burma to concentrate on the heavy reliance on confession in the handing down of guilty verdicts, which encouraged the police to torture clients to agree to give fabricated confessions.

"The use of confession as the means to obtain a conviction is from our study of the system in Burma very widespread and a cause for serious concern," Wong observed.

"In this case, the police tortured the accused for six consecutive days to have him agree to give a fabricated confession built around scraps of material and witness testimonies that they could pull together from here and there," he said.

"This forced confession constituted the basis for the guilty verdicts," Wong noted, adding that once a confession was submitted to court it was very difficult for the accused to do anything about it, even if they denied or retracted the confession, as did Phyo Wai Aung. 

The AHRC's campaign webpage for Phyo Wai Aung contains detailed information on the case and relevant documents in both English and Burmese: http://www.humanrights.asia/countries/burma/phyo-wai-aung
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လူ အနည္းဆံုး ၁၀ဦးေသဆံုးျပီးေတာ့ လူ ၁၆၀ေက်ုာ္ ဒဏ္ရာရရွိခဲ့တဲ့ ရန္ကုန္ ကန္ေတာ္ၾကီးအနီး x2o ေရကစားမ႑ပ္မွာ ဧျပီလ ၁၅ရက္ သၾကၤန္ အၾကတ္ေန႔က ဗံုးေပါက္ကဲြခဲ့တဲ့ျဖစ္ရပ္န႔ဲ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ဖမ္းဆီးထားတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား ကိုျဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္ကို အင္းစိန္ေထာင္တြင္း ရန္ကုန္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ခရိုင္ အထူးတရားရံုးကေန ဒီကေန႔ ေသဒဏ္ ခ်မွတ္ ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္အေပၚ သူ႔ေရွ႕ေနနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႔ေတြက ဘယ္လို တုံ႔ျပန္ခဲ့ပါသလဲ။ အေသးစိတ္ကို ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းထားတဲ့ မေအးေအးမာ က ေျပာျပပါမယ္။

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ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ကုိျဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္ဟာ ၂၀၁၀ခုႏွစ္ ဧျပီလမွာ ဖမ္ဆီး ခံခဲ့ ရျပီး သူ႔ကို ၂ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ႀကာ စစ္ေဆးေနရာကေန ေမလ ၈ရက္ေန႔မွာ အင္းစိန္ ေထာင္တြင္းမွာ ဖြင့္ထားတဲ့ ရန္ကုန္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းခရိုင္ အထူးတရားရံုး ကေန ေသဒဏ္ခ်မွတ္ခံခဲ့ရတာပါ။

သ႔ူအမႈကို လိုက္ပါေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနတဲ့ေရွ႕ေနႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္ဟိုး ေျပာျပ တာက

“ အမႈေလးခုမွာ ပထမ တမႈမွာ ပုဒ္မ ၃ခုနဲ႔ စြဲခ်က္တင္ထားတယ္။ အဲဒီထဲမွာ ပထမ ပုဒ္မ ၃၀၂-၁(ခ) က ၾကိဳတင္ၾကံစည္မႈနဲ႔ သတ္တာကို အားေပးတယ္ ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ ေသဒဏ္ေပးထားတယ္။ ဒုတိယပုဒ္မ ၃၂၆/၁၂၄ ဆိုတာက ထိခိုက္နာက်င္ေစေအာင္ ျပဳလုပ္တာကို အားေပးတယ္ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ ေထာင္ ဒဏ္ ၁၀ႏွစ္၊ တတိယပုဒ္မက ၃၂၄/၁၂၄ဆိုျပီး သာမန္ နာက်င္ေစမႈ ေပါ့၊ သာမန္နာက်င္ေစမႈကို က်ဴးလြန္တယ္ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ အဲဒါနဲ႔ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၃ႏွစ္။ အဲဒါက ပထမအမႈအတြက္ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ ၃ခုေပါ့။ ေနာက္တမႈက ေဖာက္ခြဲပုဒ္မ ၃/၆ က ေဖာက္ခြဲမႈကို အားေပးကူညီတယ္ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ ေထာင္ဒဏ္က တသက္ တကၽြန္းေပါ့။ ေနာက္တမႈမွာ မတရားအသင္း ဆက္သြယ္တယ္ ဆိုျပီး ပုဒ္မ ၁၇/၁ နဲ႔ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ႏွစ္ ၃၀၊ ေနာက္တမႈက ႏိုင္ငံတြင္းကို တရားမ၀င္ ၀င္ေရာက္ျပီးေတာ့ လူ၀င္မႈ ၾကီးၾကပ္ေရးရဲ႕ အေရးေပၚ ကန္႔သတ္ခ်က္အရ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၃ ႏွစ္၊ ဒီ ေလးမႈကို တေပါင္းတည္းခ်တယ္။ ေသဒဏ္ခ်လိုက္တယ္”

ကိုျဖိဳေေ၀ေအာင္ကုိ ညွွင္းပမ္းႏွိပ္စက္ျပီး ေျဖာင့္ခ်က္ေပးခိုင္းခဲ့တာေႀကာင့္ ဥပေဒနဲ႔ မညီသလို ေေသဒဏ္စီရင္မူဟာ တရားမ်ွတမူမရွိဘူး လိုု႔လည္း ေရွ႕ေနျဖစ္သူက ေျပာပါတယ္။

“ျပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ႏွစ္ပတ္က က်ေနာ္တို႔ဘက္က အျပီးသတ္ေလွ်ာက္လဲခ်က္ ေပးတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ ဒီအမႈက မမွန္ဘူး။ ညွင္းပမ္းႏွိပ္စက္လုိ႔ ေျဖာင့္ခ်က္ေပးခိုင္းလို႔ ေပးရတဲ့အမႈေပါ့။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ လႊတ္ေပးပါလို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔က အခ်က္အလက္ ေတြ အမ်ားၾကီး တင္ျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီတုန္းက တဘက္က ဥပေဒအရာရွိက က်ေနာ္တို႔ တင္ျပတဲ့ အခ်က္အလက္ေတြကို ဘာမွလည္း မေခ်ပႏိုင္ဘူး။ ေခ်လည္း မေခ်ပဘူး။ ေလွ်ာက္လဲခ်က္ကို စာနဲ႔ ေရးတင္တယ္ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ ေျပာတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ တင္ျပခဲ့တဲ့အေပၚမွာ တရားရံုးက လက္ခံတဲ့ သေဘာ ေပါ့။ ဒါနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ အယူခံ ထပ္တက္ဖို႔ပဲ က်ေနာ္တို႔က စီစဥ္ရမွာေပါ့”

ကိုျဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္ကုိ ေသဒဏ္ခ်မွတ္ျခင္းမွာ ျပင္းထန္လြန္းေႀကာင္း သူ ျပန္လည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာေရးအတြက္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းတဲ့အခါမွာ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အေျခအေနေပၚ မူတည္ေနတဲ့အေႀကာင္း ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား ကူညီ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအသင္းရဲ႔ တဲြဘက္ အတြင္းေရးမႉး ကိုဘုိႀကည္ကလည္း ေျပာပါတယ္။

“ေသဒဏ္ခ်တယ္ဆိုတာဟာ တကယ္ကို ျပင္းထန္တဲ့ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ပါ။ တကယ္ တမ္းက်ေတာ့ သူက မွ်တတဲ့ တရားစီရင္မႈကို မရဘူး။ ဖမ္းဆီးျပီးျပီးခ်င္းမွာ လည္း လူမဆန္စြာ ႏွိပ္စက္ခံရတယ္။ ခုက က်န္းမာေရးလည္း မေကာင္းဘူး။ က်န္းမာေရး ေသခ်ာ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးတာလည္း မရွိဘူး။ ဒါဟာ မွ်တတဲ့ တရားစီရင္မႈကို မရဘူးလို႔ပဲ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေျပာရမွာပါ။ ကိုျဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္ ကိစၥ တင္ မကပါဘူး၊ တျခား ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြရဲ႕ ကိစၥေတြကိုလည္း လြတ္ေျမာက္ဖို႔အတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာကိုလည္း က်ေနာ္တို႔ တိုက္တြန္းေနတာ ရွိပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ ျပည္တြင္းမွာ ရွိေနတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းေတြ နဲ႔ တျခား ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီ အသီးသီးက ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြကလည္း ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား ေတြ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးကိစၥ ဆက္ၾကိဳးစားဖို႔ ရွိပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ကို ဖမ္းတယ္ဆိုတာက ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ ဖမ္းတာ ျဖစ္တဲ့အတြက္ ႏို္င္ငံေရးအေျခေနေပၚ မူတည္ျပီးေတာ့ အျပီးသတ္မွာေတာ့ ျပန္လြတ္လာမယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္”

အာရွ လူအခြင့္ေရးေကာ္မရွင္ကလည္း ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ကိုျဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္ အမႈနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး တရားစီရင္မႈဟာ မ်ွတတဲ့စီရင္မူ မဟုတ္ဘူးလို႔ ေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ကိုျဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္ဟာ ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးအင္ဂ်င္နီယာတဦးျဖစ္ျပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရး ထဲမွာ ထဲထဲ၀င္၀င္ လႈပ္ရွားေဆာင္ရြက္သူ တဦးလည္း မဟုတ္ခဲ့ပါဘူး။ အခင္း ျဖစ္ပြားခ်ိန္မွာလည္း သူဟာ သူရဲ႔ အလုပ္ခြင္ထဲမွာပဲ ရွိေနျပီး ဒီေပါက္ကြဲမႈဟာ သူနဲ႔ မပတ္သက္တဲ့အေႀကာင္း ျငင္းဆိုထားပါတယ္။

အခုလက္ရွိမွာေတာာ့ အသည္းေရာဂါေ၀ဒနာ ခံစားေနရျပီး အျပင္ကို ထုတ္ျပီး ေဆးကုသခြင့္ မရေသးဘူးလုိ႔လည္း မိသားစုက ေျပာပါတယ္။

Credit: Ma Aye Aye Mar- VOA Burmese

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