Myanmar: Seven Students Sentenced to Death, UN Says

A military court of Myanmar has sentenced eleven anti-law dissidents to death military meetingincluding seven university students, local media and student sources reported Thursday.

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The sentences, imposed on November 30 in the prison of Insein Rangoon, come after the military authorities executed four activists last July, the first application of the death penalty in the country since 1988.

Seven students from Dagon University in Rangoon, arrested on April 21, were sentenced to death on murder charges, the University’s Student Union reported on their social media.

They are accused of having killed the manager of a Burmese bank on April 18.

According to the Burmese outlet Khit Khit, four other young men were also sentenced to death on Wednesday accused of being involved in the assassination of an official.

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The European Union, the UN and the United States, among others, harshly condemned the Burmese junta for the July executions of former National League for Democracy MP Phyo Zeyar Thaw, writer and veteran activist Ko Jimmy, as well as two other activists Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw.

Since the military seized power with a coup in 2021, a total of 128 people have been sentenced to death, according to data from the Burmese NGO Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP).

The Army justifies the coup for an alleged massive fraud during the November 2020 elections, the result of which has been annulled and in which the party of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi swept, as it did in 2015, with the endorsement of observers international.

More than 2,500 people have died since the coup due to the brutal repression carried out by the security forces, which have shot to kill peaceful and unarmed protesters, and more than 13,000 have been detained, according to data from the AAPP.

Source: Elcomercio

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