State media reported Monday that Myanmar’s (Burma) military council has executed four prisoners, including the former deputy of former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, after decades of not carrying out the death penalty.
According to Global New Light Myanmar, these convicts, including a democracy activist, were executed after being accused of leading “brutal and inhuman acts of terrorism.”
According to the official newspaper, these executions followed “prison procedures” without specifying the conditions or date of their execution.
Since the military coup of February 1, 2021, Myanmar has sentenced dozens of opponents of the military council to death.
In November, Phyu Zia Thao, a former representative of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), was arrested and sentenced to death for violating the anti-terrorism law in January.
A prominent democratic activist, Kyaw Min Yew, known as “Jimmy”, was sentenced to the same punishment by a military court.
Two other prisoners who were executed are accused of murdering a woman suspected of working as an informer for the Military Council.
Source: Lebanon Debate
