Arakan News Agency
According to media reports, on Tuesday, that the Government of Myanmar’s parliament rejected a request to close the notorious labor camps in the country.
Said Brigadier General Kyaw Kyaw Tun, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, the parliament, on Monday, there were no plans to close the detention camps, because there is no order on inhumane treatment of prisoners who are serving a sentence of hard labor.
He said Kyaw Kyaw Tun to labor camps, known as camps are sleeping, he began working out in Myanmar in 1978, has died, more than 4,000 prisoners in these camps in the period between 1978 and 2004.
The military junta in 2004 to dissolve the 36 labor camp and is the name of the rest of the 46 camps to «training centers for business ranching and agriculture» or «centers of industry».
According to government statistics, 1,100 prisoners died in the camps in the period from May 2004 to August 2014.
Kyaw Kyaw said: «These deaths dating back mainly to the weather and diet and lifestyle and accidents».
According to several reports issued by the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners, based in Thailand, most of the labor camps do not have a hospital or a prison clinic, and that at least 12 camp does not have a doctor in prison.
Government statistics showed that there are more than 10 thousand prisoners working in the 46 camp, where he is convicted of the death of hard labor within the judgment against them.
