The Myanmar junta announced today that four people were to be executed, including a former member of the party of the country’s former political leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as a well-known, democratic activist. These executions are the first to take place in the country since 1990.
Former MP Pio Zeya Tau and activist Ko Jimmy have been sentenced to death on “terrorism” charges and will be hanged “on the basis of prison procedures” along with two other detainees. A spokesman for the junta, Zhao Min Tun, said the date had not yet been set.
The military junta has sentenced to death dozens of activists who mobilized against the coup, as part of a brutal crackdown on protests. No executions have taken place in Myanmar for more than 30 years.
Pio Zeia Tau, a former member of the National League for Democracy (LND) of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, was arrested in November and sentenced to death in January under counterterrorism law. Tau is also a former hip-hop star and was jailed in 2008 by the former military junta for the lyrics he used in his songs. He was elected MP with the LND in 2015. He was accused of organizing several attacks against the regime forces after the coup. Among them was one against a train on the outskirts of Rangoon, where five police officers were killed.
The military tribunal also imposed the same sentence on activist Kiao Min Yoo, better known by the nickname “Jimmy”, who was a central figure in the 1988 student uprising against the former junta. social networking sites.
The other two men to be executed killed a woman believed to be a junta informant, according to the indictment.
A spokesman for the junta said they had all appealed and had their sentences changed, but both appeals were rejected.
The decision to execute two first-class politicians “adds fuel to the fire” of the popular resistance in the country, commented the deputy director of the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch, Phil Robertson. “This action will provoke universal condemnation and consolidate the junta’s reputation for human rights abuses,” he added.
The coup, in February 2021, plunged the country into chaos. About 1,800 civilians were killed by security forces and more than 13,000 were arrested.
Source: Capital
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