Khat Thi was at least the third poet to die during protests since the Feb. 1 coup. — Reuters picYANGON, May 9 — Myanmar poet Khat Thi, whose works declare resistance to the ruling junta, died in detention overnight and his body was returned with the organs removed, his family said today.
“I was interrogated. So was he. They said he was at the interrogation centre. But he didn’t come back, only his body,” his wife Chaw Su told BBC Burmese language news in tears from Monywa, around 100 km away by road. Chaw Su said the army had planned to bury him but that she pleaded with them for the body. She did not say how she knew her husband’s organs had been removed.Khat Thi was at least the third poet to die during protests since the Feb. 1 coup. Security forces have killed at least 776 civilians, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners activist group.
Khat Thi had been an engineer before quitting his job in 2012 to focus on his poetry and to support himself by making and selling ice cream and cakes.
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