The executions, criticised as 'vile', are the first to be conducted in decades in the Southeast Asian country and included a former politician and hip-hop artist.
The executions, criticised as"vile", are the first to be conducted in decades in the Southeast Asian country and included a former politician and hip-hop artist.Myanmar's military authorities have executed four democracy activists accused of helping carry out"terror acts", state media has reported.
The four were sentenced to death in January in a closed-doors trial, accused of helping militias to fight the army that seized powerThe executions mark the first carried out in decades in the Southeast Asian country and received international condemnation with two UN experts calling them a"vile attempt at instilling fear" among the people.
The executed men included democracy-figure Kyaw Min Yu, better known as Jimmy, and former politician and hip-hop artist Phyo Zeya Thaw, the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said.Kyaw Min Yu, 53, and Phyo Zeya Thaw, a 41-year-old ally of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, lost their appeals in June.The newspaper said the four had been charged under the counter-terrorism law and the punishment had been"conducted under prison procedures".
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