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- November 07, 2023
Narinjara News, 25 July 2022
The United League of Arakan / Arakan Army has condemned the Myanmar military council's execution of four persons including two pro-democracy activists.
In a Burmese language statement, issued today, the organisation asserted that the news has shocked the entire Myanmar people.
The military council executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker (U Phyo Zoya Thaw
alais Maung Kyaw of NLD led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi) and a prominent activist (U Kyaw Min Yu alias
Jimmy), stated the junta media on
Monday.
"The execution of four prisoners shocked not only the ULA/AA, but
the entire people of Myanmar. We
are deeply saddened along with the families
and relatives of those, who were sentenced to death, and the entire population. We express our
concern for the peace of Myanmar,” said
the ULA/AA statement.
If the execution is real, the military council has simply destroyed the good will for a peaceful solution.
The military rulers were supposed
to encourage the initiative to resolve conflicts peacefully going along neighboring countries and
also ASEAN countries, added the statement.
Despite the pleas of a number of diplomats and responsible international community members ‘not to
sentence the death penalty’, the military council follows its foolish policy that provokes the entire population.
Besides the two political prisoners, U Hla Myo Aung alais Ko Myo and U Aung Thura Zaw alias Tura were
also executed by the military council.
The AA expressed hope that more future heroes would be born to sacrifice their lives for the
cause of Myanmar.
The junta has sentenced dozens of anti-coup activists to death as part of its crackdown after seizing power on
1 February 2021, but it was the
first incident of execution in Myanmar after decades. Moreover, it is the first capital punishment
implemented by the present military regime.
According to the Human Rights Watch, the executions were an ‘act of utter cruelty’.
Amnesty International also condemned the execution saying that it was an ‘atrocious escalation in State
repression.
Even though the junta faced severe criticism from international organizations in the last few weeks, it
insisted that the executions would
go accordingly.
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres, while condemning the junta's decision, termed it ‘a
blatant violation to the right to life,
liberty and security of person’.