Burma Army Major goes on the rampage with gun in Ye Township

May 19, 2007

HURFOM

An inebriated and trigger happy Maj Aung Naing Win, sub battalion commander of No.586 battalion of the Burmese Army, fired from his gun creating panic among the people at the funeral of a monk in Ye Township.

According to a source the Major not only fired but also flayed his fists at the village headman without any reason. He also scared two women by following them in a drunken state.

The village called A-Baroy, about 10 miles from Ye, was arranging for the funeral of a monk on April 21. The army battalion No. 586 is based around the area.

Maj Aung Naing Win was invited by the former village headman, Nai Kjar and had came with four soldiers and drank beer at a food shop called Aung Than.

The Major asked a waitress, Mi Yin age (30), what meat was available to go with the beer. She said pork and chicken. However the Major said that he wanted to eat human flesh and Mi Yin said he could strip meat from his body if he wanted to eat it so badly.

Mi Yin ran way from the shop because the Major pointed his gun at her because of her cheeky reply, the source added.

The soldiers spent Kyat 108,000 which including the price of the beer. The Major broke a table in the food shop.

The drunk Major started shooting. He went to the monastery at noon to have lunch. There he frightened a young girl of 20, Mi Moe Wah and followed her till her house.

Major Aung Naing Win returned to the shop and fired the gun twice in the air and kicked at tables, chairs, glasses and beer bottles.

As a military officer, Maj Aung Naing Winâ€™s behaviour is unacceptable, said a monk. As an army man he should take care and handle problems if the soldiers create such a situation.

The village headman Nai Myint Oo came to the food shop where the ceremony was being held and was being hospitable to the soldiers from the battalion. However, the Major asked about the village headmanâ€™s academic background and he did not allow Nai Myint Oo to sit on a chair because he had not passed the tenth grade, the sources said.

Moreover, the Major shook his fist many times at Nai Myint Oo face when he tried to stop him and Nai Nyo was injured in his leg from shards of glass from the broken beer bottles.

The monks from the monastery came to the food shop and persuaded the Major to go back to the battalion and put a stop to the unseemly behaviour and stop frightening the people. It took half an hour to make him leave because he kept refusing, said a monk.

Later the villagers found out that the former village headman Nai Kjar invited the soldiers and the Major in order to create an ugly situation at the ceremony. Nai Kjar who lost his post of A-Baroy village headman a few months ago admitted that he had invited the Major to A-Baroy village with such intent.

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