According to the statement of the All Burma Federation of student Unions – North Okkalapa Township Students’ Union (Ba-Ka-Tha League), the SAC had sentenced Ko Kaung Satt Paing who was the person in charge of the field activities of the North Okkalapa Township Students’ Union (Ba-Ka-Tha League) to life imprisonment, and on April 25, the death sentence has been extended.
On March 22nd, the SAC ordered that Ko Kaung Satt Paing be sentenced to life imprisonment under Sections 505(a) and 50(j), and more than a month later, he was extended by Sections 50(i), 49(a) and changed to the current death row, according to a central executive of the Ba-Ka-Tha League.
“The situation in which Ko Kaung Satt Paing was sentenced to death is not allowed to hire a lawyer. I see that they put the section they want to put on him. They already know that he is a Ba-Ka-Tha comrade, so they did it as a way of oppressing Ba-Ka-Tha.” said a central executive of the Ba-Ka-Tha League.
The Ba-Ka-Tha League strongly opposes all unlawful killings, unjust arrests, imprisonments of the People and the destruction and occupation of the people’s houses, including the life imprisonment of Ko Kaung Satt Paing, the death penalty, and the arrest and imprisonment of Ba-Ka-Tha comrades under arbitrary charges.
In a statement from the Ba-Ka-Tha (ABFSU), “The Ba-Ka-Tha League clearly believes that these actions are unjust and one-sided judgments by the Coup Fascist Army. Therefore, Ba-Ka-Tha has strongly warned that the military group must be held accountable for all the injustices and war crimes committed against the People, including the Ba-Ka-Tha comrades, and to stop these actions immediately.”
A 20-year-old Ba-Ka-Tha member, Ko Kaung Satt Paing, was arrested by the SAC on December 1, 2022, and was sentenced this arbitrary order.
Also on February 9th, the SAC sentenced Ko Heing Htet (aka) Ko Po Po, the vice president of High School No.(1) North Okkakapa Students’ Union (Ba-Ka-Tha League), to life imprisonment.