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NLD Prepares to Sue Myanmar’s Military for Illegal Arrests
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By The Irrawaddy 12 February 2021
Yangon The committee representing elected members of the Yangon regional parliament from the National League for Democracy (NLD) is preparing to prosecute the military’s State Administrative Council for the unlawful detention of Yangon’s ministers and parliamentary speakers under Article 344 of the Penal Code.
“Our target is the military council. [The Yangon ministers] were arrested on its order. We won’t prosecute the Tatmadaw [military] as a whole. We believe not all Tatmadaw personnel are on the same side so we’ll only prosecute the military council,” said the NLD’s Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe of the Committee Representing Yangon Parliament.