Myanmar’s junta announced on Friday that it would kill four people, including a former party member of former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a prominent pro-democracy activist, in the country’s first judicial execution since 1990. .
Former MP Phyo Zeya Thaw and activist Ko Jimmy, were sentenced to death for terrorism, be hanged in accordance with jail procedures along with two other detainees on an unscheduled date, junta ruling spokesman Zaw Min Tun said.
Dozens of death sentences
Burma’s junta has condemned dozens of activists mobilized against the coup that brought it to power last year to death, as part of a brutal crackdown on protests that followed the putsch, but Myanmar has not killed the anyone over 30 years.
Phyo Zeya Thaw, a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party, was arrested in November and sentenced to death in January under anti -terrorism laws.
In the past, the subversive texts of this former hip-hop pioneer displeased the former junta and he was imprisoned in 2008 for several years.
Elected to Parliament for NDL in 2015, he was accused of organizing several attacks after the coup on regime forces, including the attack on a commuter train in Rangoon in August in which five policemen were killed.
The military court issued the same sentence against pro-democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, better known by his nickname jimmy.
Rising to fame in the 1988 student uprising against the former junta, he was sentenced to death for inciting rebellion in his social media posts.
They continued the legal proceedings by appealing and sending a letter requesting a change of sentence.said Zaw Min Tun. But the court rejected these appeals and took no further action after thatHe added.
Two other men, who were sentenced to death for killing a woman they accused of being a junta informant, will also be killed, the spokesman said.
There is no set date for these executions, he added.
The junta’s decisionThe execution of two prominent political leaders adds fuel to the flames of the country’s popular anti-military resistancereaction of the deputy director ofNGO Human Rights WatchPhil Robertson.
Such a move would also draw global condemnation and cement the junta’s reputation as one of the worst human rights violators in Asia.he judged.
The coup in February 2021 plunged the country into chaos. Nearly 1,800 civilians were killed by security forces and more than 13,000 others were arrested, according to a local NGO.
Source: Radio-Canada
