(ANSA) - BANGKOK, 25 JUL - Four Burmese activists for democracy were executed for collaborating in organizing "terrorist acts": these are the first executions of political prisoners since the 1980s.
The state media reported this today in Burma, where the military junta that ousted the democratic government led by Aung San Suu Kyi has been in power since February 2021.
The four executed activists are former MP and hip-hop artist Phyo Zeya Thaw (41), Kyaw Min Yu (53), HlaMyo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw.
Phyo Zeya Thaw - who in 2015 was elected to the ranks of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy - was convicted of organizing some armed attacks against the security forces.
Kyaw Min Yu, on the other hand, was found guilty of inciting armed resistance with social media messages critical of the regime.
The four executed activists had been sentenced to a green light behind closed doors last August, and their appeal was dismissed in June.
According to the Burmese inlingua service of the Voice of America broadcaster, at least 113 activists are awaiting execution after the death sentences handed down under the military regime of General Min Aung Hlain.
It is estimated that at least 2,000 people have been killed by the regime since the February 2021 coup. An exact death toll is made impossible by the fact that the armed resistance has moved into the countryside, joining in many cases with ethnic militants engaged for decades in conflicts with the central exercise, which denies them greater autonomy in the conf areas (ANSA).
