Four Arrested in Kan Bauk, Including CDM Health Worker and Family Members

June 3, 2025

HURFOM: On the night of May 31st, 2025, four individuals were arrested by junta forces in Kan Bauk Sub-town, Yebyu Township, Dawei District, Tanintharyi Region. Among those detained were a Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) health worker and three members of a non-CDM health worker’s family, according to local sources.

At around 11:00 p.m., a group of about 10 soldiers from the Junta’s Mawrawaddy Naval Command arrived in a vehicle and raided two homes in Hlee Gone Wards 1 and 2. They arrested 50-year-old Daw Than Than Maw, a health worker; her daughter Ma Zin Maw Naing, 27, also a health worker; and her son Ko Htet Htet, 22. Another health worker, U Kyaw Soe Win, around 45 years old, who has been participating in the CDM since 2021, was also arrested from his home in Ward No. 2.

“There were five family members in Daw Than Than Maw’s home when the troops came. They took three of them. She’s not in good health either. The soldiers said they were just following orders from above,” said a relative close to the family.

Both Daw Than Than Maw and her daughter are reportedly working at the Kan Bauk Sub-township hospital, while U Kyaw Soe Win had been running a private clinic at his home since joining the CDM movement after the military coup in February 2021.

“U Kyaw Soe Win was taken late at night as well. We still don’t know the exact reason. He’s been CDM since the beginning and treated patients at home. The troops came around 11 p.m., said they were acting on higher orders, and even asked him to bring extra clothes,” said a friend of U Kyaw Soe Win.

Before the coup, U Kyaw Soe Win had served in the rural health department and the Maternal and Child Health Section in Kan Bauk. After the coup, he joined the CDM and refused to serve under the Junta.
All four detainees are currently being held and interrogated at the Mawrawaddy Navy base in Ohn Pin Kwin village, according to local sources. No official charges have been made public yet, and concerns are growing for their well-being, especially given the Junta’s track record of targeting CDM participants and their families.

According to documentation by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland, the Mawrawaddy Navy Unit has arrested more than 20 civilians in recent months—many of them former civil servants and local residents who joined the CDM in opposition to the military regime. The wave of arrests reflects ongoing efforts by the Junta to suppress dissent and punish those who stood on the side of democracy and nonviolence.

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