The military says they have committed “cruel and inhumane acts of terrorism”
Myanmar’s military junta, former Burma, has executed four democracy opponents and activists, including a former deputy from former leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party.
The detainees, including another prominent democracy activist, were executed for conducting “brutal and inhumane acts of terror,” the state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar reported. The newspaper added that the executions were carried out “according to prison procedure”, without going into detail when or how they died.
The military junta has sentenced dozens of anti-coup activists to death as part of its crackdown on dissent after coming to power last year, but Myanmar had not carried out any executions in decades.
Phyo Zeya Thaw, a former MP for Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), was arrested in November and sentenced to death in January for violating the counter-terrorism law.
Kyaw Min Yu, a prominent democracy activist, received the same sentence from the military court.
The other two were sentenced to death for the murder of a woman they believed was a junta informant in Rangoon.
The junta was heavily criticized by international powers when it announced its intention to carry out the executions last month. UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the decision, calling it a “blatant violation of one’s right to life, liberty and security”.
The ruling army continues its bloody repression against its opponents, with more than 2,000 dead and more than 15,000 prisoners since the coup, according to a local NGO.
He is also accused of genocide against the Rohingya. In 2017, more than 740,000 members of this Muslim minority took refuge in makeshift camps in Bangladesh to flee abuse by the military.
Source: La Verdad
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