70 PDFs return legal fold up to June 22
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NP News - June 23
A total of 70 PDFs who attended underground military training but committed no major crime, and came to light to discontinue armed-insurgent courses have been handed over to their parents by the government.
The figure is updated until June 22.
A total of 70 PDFs- 11 from Sagaing Region, 13 from Magwe Region, 11 from Ayeyarwady Region, 6 from Bago Region, 24 from Mandalay Region, and 5 from Yangon have been transferred directly to the parents respectively as didn’t involve in major or terror crimes.
Authorities said that the parents requested them to encourage their children to discontinue the underground resistance. Besides, the EAOs that offered the roofs to the PDFs have disclosed that it becomes a burden to them.
Accordingly, the government released invitation statements urging the PDFs to turn up for rehabilitation in the society on account of the parents’ demands; and accepted to fold of the law.
In bygone history, it happened thousands of students went UG movement or armed-insurgent after the 1988 uprising.
Meanwhile again, the military-led government invited and welcomed back the students who joined the armed-insurgent courses taking shelter in the forests.
Youths who experienced once as the PDFs reportedly told that some wanted to return home to live peacefully; however, hardliners intimidated killing if they returned.
History repeats rhymes. ‘Pajau camp massacre’ is the most barbarous precedent of those jungle laws in Myanmar’s revolutionary history. Dozens of students who turned into armed entities were tortured and subjected to inhumane interrogations by their comrades under suspicion of whether they are the informers or spies of the military intelligence. A total of 15 students of both genders were brutally killed in the far north camp – Pajau, Kachin State by their comrades on February 12, 1992 – the country’s significant Union Day.
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