E/CN.4/1995/34 page 95 488. The cases summarized in the following paragraphs were also transmitted to the Government. 489. Calisto Person was detained in Sofala province on 25 November 1993 and was not delivered until 6 December 1993 to the criminal investigation department in Beira. There he was allegedly beaten and tortured, resulting in the partial loss of use of his right arm. It was reported that the incident was being investigated by the Comissão de Cesar Fogo (Cease-Fire Commission), which was established to monitor the cease-fire agreed to in 1992 by the Government and the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (RENAMO). 490. Jose Antonio Magalhães of Nampula province was reportedly arrested in January 1994 after a quarrel with an off-duty policeman, taken to a police station and allegedly beaten repeatedly. 491. Reports were also received according to which the Força de Intervenção Rápida (FIR), established to carry out protection and crowd control duties during important public events or in response to crises, had carried out assaults on civilians. The FIR was said to lack adequate training for normal police work. In one reported instance, the FIR was called out to a Maputo suburb on 5 December 1993, after a number of youths fought each other. Members of FIR allegedly broke into the home of Virginia Lopes, whose son had reportedly been involved in the brawl, and beat her and broke her arm. Myanmar Urgent appeals made and replies received 492. The Special Rapporteur made three urgent appeals on behalf of the persons mentioned in the following paragraphs. The dates on which the appeals were transmitted appear in brackets at the end of the corresponding summaries. 493. The following Karen women from Taw Kyauk village were arrested on 13 March 1992 by officials of the Slorc (State Law and Order Restoration Council) under accusation of supporting the Karen Women’s Organization: Naw Hey Say, Naw San Win, Naw Dah Dah, Naw Nay Blut, Naw Wah, Naw Kyu Kyu, Naw Hla Ngwe, Naw Tin Kyi, aged 15, and Naw San Myint Htay, aged 17. In the course of the arrest they were each allegedly beaten brutally, two of them were raped and one was stabbed with a bayonet in both thighs. Thereafter, they were tied up and taken to the Toungoo jail. They were being held in detention and fears were expressed that they might still be subjected to torture or ill-treatment (21 December 1993). 494. Khin Zaw Win was arrested on 4 July 1994 by members of Military Branch Three at Yangon airport as he tried to board a plane for Singapore, where he was a student. It was not known where he was being held (19 July 1994). 495. In August 1994 the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that action was being taken against Khin Zaw Win under the 1923 Union Government Official Secret Act. 496. Khin Maung Swe, MP-elect and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), Daw San San Nwe a