An irate Commander Maj-Gen Ohn Myint has lashed out at Kachin students after they set in motion a poster campaign since early this week in Myitkyina Township, capital of Kachin State, Northern Burma. The posters are targeted at the Burmese military junta.

On Monday all Kachin students of the Myitkyina University, were picked up and forcibly made to appear in font of Commander Ohn Myint. He warned them and asked them desist from the poster movement, said university sources.

Between Tuesday and Wednesday IX and X grade students from every high school around Myitkyina were forcibly picked up from their schools. They were severely scolded for the poster movement by Maj-Gen Ohn Myint, said a high school student in Myitkyina.

During the meeting between Commander Ohn Myint and high school students in No. (3) State High School in Myitkyina downtown, a Kachin grade X schoolboy was badly treated by the Commander for his race and his frail physique, said school sources.

Maj-Gen Ohn Myint lambasted the schoolboy saying, “You’re a handful for me and I’ll kill you now!  Your Kachins are going to disappear” when the schoolboy simply rose when the Commander Ohn Myint ordered all Kachin students in the meeting to stand, according to the school sources.

Last weekend, Myitkyina University students led by the Burma student wing of All Kachin Students and Youth Union (AKSYU) pasted 500 posters with a five-point charter of demands in four high schools including Myitkyina University, Colleges and township to village level junta’s administrative offices.

In Myiktyina, tomorrow’s biggest meeting to support the outcome of the National Convention in Myitkyina has been rescheduled to late this month  in fear of resumption of protests by monks in lower Burma, said local residents.