ransacked Buddhist monasteries, beaten monks and dissidents and arrested an estimated 3,000-6000
people. The Burma army, Light Infantry Division 66, burned an undetermined number of bodies,
some still alive, at the Ye Way crematorium sealed off by armed guards northeast of Rangoon.
Shin U Thilawuntha, professor of sacred Buddhist scripture of the Yuzana Monastery in Myitkyina,
was beaten to death in detention. Maj-Gen Ohn Myint ordered the arrest and personally involved in
the brutal torture.
read the truth
27 September (1942), DOB, Pyapon Ni Lon Oo (a) Aung Myint, highly respected poet, political prisoner,
gagged by Censorship Board.
28 September (1982), Maj Mahn Ngwe Aung and Myo Aung, Karen National Union, were killed during a
shootout with soldiers guarding the building while attempting to seize control of the Burmese
broadcasting building in Rangoon
28 September (2005), death in custody at Insein prison, Nai Aung Loon (a) Ong Lorn, New Mon State
Party