Seng Yang/Human Rights/April 18, 2008/5:37pm
Burma (Myanmar): Persistent threats to basic health rights of detainees
Ch. Narendra
This article is about the harsh human rights violations Myanmar is still threatening the people with.
“According to news reports of the last couple of days, leading human rights defender and political activist Min Ko Naing is among those persons detained in Burma since the nationwide uprising of last September whose health has worsened.”
“The Voice of America Burmese service reported on April 15 that he has asked for a specialist to look at an apparent eye infection, but his request has so far been denied as an eye doctor only comes to the central jail were he is housed once per month. His elder sister says that this is one among a variety of conditions that he is facing at the moment, despite his long years of prior experience with jail.”
“The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is alarmed to hear of this latest case of a detainee whose eyes are going untreated. The news comes some two months after it issued a special humanitarian appeal for emergency eye treatment for 70-year-old U Than Lwin, who has been detained in Mandalay also since last September. Although he subsequently did obtain an operation, it was too late to save his sight in one eye; Than Lwin has retained only partial eyesight on his right.”
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