On June 25, Burmese Army authorities of the Light Infantry Battalion (274) detained and interrogated the six locals from Sanset village in Matupi Township.

In February this year, accusing villagers of maintaining contact with the Chin National Army (CNA), Colonel San Aung, second tactical commander, ordered the arrest of 17 villagers from Sanset village. Army men arrested and took the villagers to Matupi. But on the way, U Tin Ceu was killed by the soldiers.

On May 30, U Pa Tung Lian wrote a letter of complaint to Senior General Than Shwe detailing the killing of U Tin Ceu. Instead of redressal, the authorities arrested six complainants for reporting the murder to the army brass.

The copies of the complaint letter on the murder were also addressed to the members of State Peace and Development Council such as Lieutenant General Ye Myint, North Western commander Major General Ta Aye and Brigadier Hueng Ngai, said a local in Matupi.

The complaint letter was stated to have mentioned that military personnel led by Major Ye Myint Oo of LIB (140) arrested 17 villagers including U Tin Cue (33) for suspected links with the Chin rebel group and took them to Matupi on February 24. When they arrived in Lotaw village on February 26, soldiers took U Tin Ceu to another place and killed him, a villager in Matupi said.

"There were lot of injures on the body of U Tin Ceu. Though it has been quite a few months since the killing, we haven't heard of any action being taken for the murder which was committed without any reason", said a relative of U Tin Ceu. KNG