U Nyan Win, the MP of Paung Township and a member of NLD Legal Aid views on DASSK being detained

DVB ( September 1, 2003 )

They have no rights to arrest and detain her like this. It is against the law to arrest and detain without her breaking the law and without the permission of the court. They are arresting and detaining her to limit her freedom.

I don’t know whether she is being detained by the authority with Act 10a. If she is being detained with that, they have the rights to arrest her under the current military rule. Forget whether it is good and right or not. According to that act, she is being detained in accordance with the law. The current Burmese law allow the authority to detain her without the right to see her lawyers. The law are not in accordance with the international law. They are designed to limit individual freedom. The law are designed to arrest people without charge and the direction of the court.

The house arrests of top NLD leaders are also detentions in many respects. They cannot move freely. These are detentions. There is no legal term [in Burmese] for the word ‘house arrest’.

There is no proper enquiry into the Dipeyin incident by the police yet. Legally, there must be proper inquest when someone dies. Judges have to do it with the help from the police. We still haven’t heard that they have done it. It could be said that the failure to do so is not in accordance with the laws.