SAC Sending Criminals in Pathein to Front Line
By Network Media Group
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Pathein prison authorities have nullified prison sentences for convicted criminals in the Irrawaddy Region in order for the State Administration Council (SAC) to deploy them to the front lines and reinforce their diminishing armed forces, particularly in response to the resistance forces’ successes in key areas across Burma during 1027 Operation.
According to an anonymous prison staff member who spoke to NMG, the warden signed sentence cancellations for inmates with military experience on December 22. The ex-convicts were then dispatched in three trucks in full armour to the front lines that same night, with a fourth truck loaded with rations. “Some of them are deserters while others were convicted for rape,” the staffer explained.
A week earlier, more than 200 ex-soldiers from the prison and other regions were also pardoned and sent to Kwin Kauk military school for brief training.
U Win Maung, a 75-year-old army veteran, commented, “Min Aung Hlaing’s army does not have enough strength. His army is failing on all the front lines, and he’s trying to replenish it with criminal soldiers. If he didn’t have an air force, Naypyidaw would have already fallen.”
Witnesses observed the trucks stopping in Ward 8 of Pathein, where additional soldiers were picked up before arriving at the prison to collect the ex-convicts. The trucks were later seen transporting them over the bridge in Nga Thaing Chaung on the Pathein–Monywa highway at around 9:30 pm.
