The four condemned, including a pro-democracy active activist, had been accused “of brutal and inhuman act of terror”. The powerful army pursues a bloody repression against its opponents with more than 2,000 civilians killed since the 2021 coup.
Le Monde with AFP
The Burmese junta carried out the execution of four prisoners, including a former deputy for the party of the former civil leader Aung San Suu Kyi, said a state media on Monday 25 July, while the death penalty had not been practiced for decades.
The convicts, including a pro-democracy active activist, had been accused of “acts of brutal and inhuman terror”, according to the Global New Light of Myanmar. According to the Official Journal, the executions followed “the prison procedures”, without specifying either how or when they were carried out.
The activist in question would be the singer of Hip-Hop Zayar Thaw, 41, ex-deputy of the National League for Democracy, the Party of Aung San Suu Kyi. He was co-founder of the first Burmese hip-hop group, Acid, then imprisoned from 2008 to 2011 for having carried out a graffiti campaign against the junta. He had been elected deputy of the National League for Democracy in 2012, during the first partial elections which were opened to him, then again in 2016.
One of the other prisoners executed would be the activist and writer Ko Jimmy, his real name Kyaw Min Yu, 53. He was a student leader during the 1988 uprising, and spent more than fifteen years in detention between 1988 and 2012.
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Both had been convicted in January for organizing and planning attacks considered by the junta as acts of terrorism. On June 4, the government spokesman from the coup said that the calls of the two prisoners, and of two other death sentences, were rejected and that they would be hanged, causing the anger of the NGOs and many Country – of which France, which denounced an “abject decision”. In Burma, demonstrators had unrolled a banner promising “reprisals” against the junta, reported the pro -democracy site The Irrawwady, on Twitter, June 15.
Bloody repression
Since the military coup of February 1, 2021, Burma condemned to the death penalty of the dozens of opponents of the junta.
Phyo Zeya Thaw, a former deputy for the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy, was arrested in November and sentenced to the death penalty in January for having violated the anti -terrorist law.
The two other prisoners executed are two men accused of having killed a woman whom they suspected of being an informant of the junta. The powerful army pursues a bloody repression against its opponents with more than 2,000 civilians killed and more than 15,000 arrested since the coup, according to a local NGO.
It is also targeted by accusations of genocide against the Rohinngyas. In 2017, more than 740,000 members of this Muslim minority found refuge in makeshift camps in Bangladesh to flee the abuses of the military.