Sergeant Commits Suicide on Frontlines
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Paletwa: A sergeant from the Burmese army committed suicide on the frontlines of the Indo-Burma border on 4 January, after a commander of his battalion harrassed him, according to a local report.
The sergeant was identified as Kyaw Kyaw Oo from Light Infantry Battalion 234 based in Buthidaung, in northern Arakan State.
According to a village source, he shot himself with his gun during the night at Chin Let Wa Village in Paletwa Township in southern Chin State.
The army used several villagers from Chin Let Wa as porters to carry the body to the Paletwa hospital for autopsy.
Battalion 234 led by Commander Lieutenant Colonel Aung Maung Maung arrived at the border about a month ago to carry out orders.
Kyaw Kyaw Oo left a wife and three minor children.
The suicide rate in the Burma army has been increasing recently for unknown reasons. A Nasaka man from Maungdaw and a soldier from Buthidaung on the western Burmese border both committed suicide last month.
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