Armed police stormed the home of notorious fugitive Kyaw Win Sein in Shwepyithar Township on Saturday, arresting the sword-wielding 48-year-old and his alleged accomplice Naing Min Thu, aka ‘Banana’.
Kyaw Win Sein – a longtime criminal who once escaped from a prison labor camp in Mon state – is accused of beating, threatening and raping his two 14-year-old house maids on multiple occasions.
“Two girls were seen in the house of the thug leaders, who we used guns to arrest,” an officer with North Yangon Police told the Voice Weekly. “Those two girls have been in this house for three months, after a house maid broker sent them here, and they knew he was a thug leader after they got here.”
Officers said that the men initially brandished swords when officers arrived at the Cherry Street residence.
Kyaw Win Sein will also face charges of kidnapping and robbing a couple in Ton Tay Township in 2013 – he fled officers who tried to arrest him near Hlaing Tharyar toll gate.
Last week, Tin Aung Htun, the minister of Yangon Region’s Border and Security Affairs, bemoaned that authorities have only been able to nab half of 12 “thug leaders” in the troubled townships of Shwepyithar and Hlaing Tharyar.
Looks like he can check another one off the list.
Editor’s note: In a previous version of this post we mispelled Kyaw Win Sein’s name. We regret the error.
