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Junta Myanmar has executed four detainees including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party and a prominent activist. State media reported Monday’s execution was the first implementation of the death penalty in the country in decades.
Reported from the news agency AFP, Monday (25/7/2022), the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported that the four detainees were executed for leading “brutal and inhuman acts of terror”.
The newspaper said the executions were carried out “under prison procedures” without saying when or how the men were killed.
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Myanmar seal has executed dozens of anti-coup activists as part of its crackdown on dissent after seizing power last year, but Myanmar have not carried out executions for decades, the last time being in 1988.
One of those executed, PhyoZeya Thaw, a former MP from SuuKyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) who was arrested in November last year, was sentenced to death in January for offenses under anti-terrorism laws.
Phyo Zeya Thaw has been accused of orchestrating several attacks against regime forces, including a gun attack on a commuter train in Yangon in August last year that killed five police officers. A hip-hop pioneer whose subversive rhymes irritated the previous junta, he was jailed in 2008 for membership in illegal organizations and possession of foreign currency. He was elected to the parliament representing the NLD in the 2015 elections, which ushered in the transition to civilian rule.
Democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu – better known as “Jimmy” – received the same sentence from a military tribunal.
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