NAYPYITAW, 23 September 2021, (TON): Three young anti-coup activists were arrested in Yangon’s Tamwe Township and accused of helping to rob two banks to raise funds for armed resistance against the junta.

Win Htet Mar, who is the former chair of a local branch of the Youth for a New Society activist group, was detained at 9:30am at her apartment on 152nd street.

A fellow activist said “residents from Win Htet Mar’s neighbourhood told me that plainclothes officers from the military broke into the apartment she was staying in.”

He added “Kyaw Zin Lin and Pyae Phyo Kyaw, two activists from the All Burma Federation of Student Unions, were arrested in Tamwe later that afternoon.”

He told media “the two were together when the military made the arrests. I think the soldiers came to their apartment after arresting Win Htet Mar.”

Relatives said “they do not know where the three are being held.”

The activists all played leading roles in street protests against the coup regime after the military seized power in February.

Military-run newspapers on Wednesday accused the three activists of being involved in robberies at two branches of the Global Treasure Bank, in South Okkalapa and Mayangon townships, on July 15 and August 30.