Sunday, 09 May 2021 10:38 PM MYT
Khat Thi was at least the third poet to die during protests since the Feb. 1 coup. Reuters pic
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YANGON, May 9 Myanmar poet Khat Thi, whose works declare resistance to the ruling junta, died in detention overnight and his body was returned with the organs removed, his family said today.
A spokesman for the junta did not answer calls to request comment on the death of Khat Thi, who had penned the line “They shoot in the head, but they don’t know the revolution is in the heart.” Myanmar Now news service said he was 44.
Four deaths were reported in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-biggest city, two in Pyay, a town in south-central Myanmar, and one in Twante, a suburb of Yangon, Myanmar's largest city.