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    Death sentence in Myanmar rape-murder case

    A court in Myanmar has sentenced to death two men in a rape-murder case that triggered a wave of communal violence in western Rakhine state, official media said on Tuesday.

    A third defendant hanged himself in prison earlier this month, according to a brief report in the New Light of Myanmar, a government mouthpiece.

    In apparent revenge for the attack, a Buddhist mob beat 10 Muslims to death on June 3, mistakenly believing the perpetrators were among them.

    Since then, dozens of people have died in clashes between local ethnic Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya.

    According to Amnesty International, no death row prisoner in Myanmar is known to have been executed since 1988.

    Decades of discrimination have left the Muslim Rohingya stateless and viewed by the United Nations as among the most persecuted minorities on the planet.

    About 800 000 of them live in Myanmar, according to the UN, mostly in Rakhine.

    The Myanmar government considers the Rohingya to be foreigners, while many citizens see them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and view them with hostility.

    The New Light of Myanmar said on Saturday that 50 people had died with 54 injured between May 28 and June 14 in Rakhine, although the violence is believed to have eased since late last week.

    The whole state is under emergency rule with a heavy security presence. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the violence, which saw many homes burned to the ground.

    Myanmar's President Thein Sein has warned the unrest could disrupt the nation's fragile democratic reforms as it emerges from decades of army rule.

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    Wa Authorities Say 2 Men Executed in Self-Ruling Region

    A court in Panghsang handed down death sentences to 2 people found guilty of murder in the autonomous Wa Special Region, where on Sunday the duo were executed, according to local sources.

    Zhao Guoan, who is a spokesperson from the United Wa State Army (UWSA), confirmed the court ruling and the men's execution.

    "They killed other people. The court gave the death sentence to them yesterday," he told The Irrawaddy on Monday.

    He said the crime and severe sentence were rare in the Wa Special Region, an autonomous zone in Shan State that is ruled by the UWSA and administers a judicial system independent of the Burmese government.

    "Our court only gives the death penalty when someone killed another. It happens only sometimes here," Zhao said.

    The UWSA, Burma's largest ethnic armed group, administers the Wa Special Region essentially beyond the reach of the central government in Naypyidaw.

    At the national level, Burma is considered a de facto abolitionist state and has not openly carried out an execution in decades.

    The UWSA-run Wa State TV aired a broadcast on Sunday that showed photos of the 2 men made to kneel before police officers, presumably before being shot dead in accordance with the Panghsang court's ruling.

    A separate report, also from UWSA-affiliated media, identified the men, one being Yan Lu, a 50-year-old ethnic Wa man who was found to have killed his 2 wives while under the influence of illicit narcotics.

    Li Jian Guo, a 33-year-old Chinese citizen, was found guilty in the slaying of his 18-month-old son, also reportedly under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

    The weekend executions recall a similar case that played out in January in the Mong La Special Region, where a Chinese national was reportedly executed by officials apparently acting under instruction from the semiautonomous authority there. That man, too, was found guilty of murder, as well as arson. The Mong La Special region is administered by the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA), a non-state armed group like the UWSA.

    http://www.irrawaddy.com/factiva/wa-...ng-region.html
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    Myanmar court gives exorcist death for killing 3 children

    By Esther Htusan
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    YANGON, Myanmar — A court in Myanmar sentenced a self-styled exorcist to death on Tuesday for killing three children during a ritual he carried out after telling their parents their offspring were possessed by evil spirits.

    A police officer in Thanlyin, the township where the trial was held, said the court sentenced Tun Naing for the deaths of two girls, aged 8 months and 2 years, and a 3-year-old boy. The children suffered fatal injuries last October when Tun Naing punched and kicked them. The officer, contacted by phone, declined to give his name.

    Superstition and belief in spirits is common in Myanmar, especially in rural villages in the Buddhist-dominated country.

    Tun Naing, 30, had pleaded guilty when he was brought to trial in November last year, telling the court, “I lost control of my mind and I killed them.”

    Tun Naing received an additional sentence of seven years in prison for severely injuring a 4-year-old girl in a separate ceremony in another village. Witnesses to that incident alerted the police, who arrested him.

    Death sentences are rare in Myanmar, and none have been carried out since 1988. However, the death penalty is still applied when there is clear evidence of a capital crime such as murder, said Kyaw Myint, a veteran lawyer.

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    Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found on a beach on the southern island of Koh Tao in Thailand.


    Zaw Lin (R) and Win Zaw Htun (L)



    Myanmar men given death penalty for killing 2 British backpackers in Thailand appeal against sentence

    Bar workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun were found guilty of murdering David Miller, 24, and raping and killing Hannah Witheridge, 23, in September 2014

    By Nandini Krishnamoorthy
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    Two Myanmar men given the death sentence for murdering two British backpackers in Thailand in September 2014 have used their last life line and appealed to a court against the sentence.

    Migrant bar workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun were found guilty of murdering David Miller, 24, and raping and killing Hannah Witheridge, 23, whose bodies were discovered on a beach on the diving resort of Koh Tao in Thailand.

    Both the men had raped Witheridge and bludgeoned the pair over the head, a court had heard in December 2015.

    Their death sentence was upheld by the Appeal Court in March this year when the pair lost an appeal to have their sentence overturned.

    Lin and Htun submitted their final appeal on Monday (21 August).

    "The deadline is today so we have to submit it. This is the final chance to appeal," Nakhon Chomphuchat, head of the Myanmar men's defence team, told Reuters.

    The conviction of the men in 2015 was mired in controversy as they had claimed that the confessions they made during the questioning – which were later retracted – had been extracted through torture or abuse.

    The workers earned some supporters who also claimed that the DNA evidence submitted by the Thai investigators was inadmissible as it had not been collected, tested or analysed as per international standards. They also alleged that questioning of the two men was unlawful as it had been done without the presence of the lawyers of Lin and Htun.

    Reuters reported that some migrant rights groups also accused the Thai police of failing to properly seal off the area where the crime took place and of using the two Myanmar workers as scapegoats.

    The Thai police denied the accusation. The families of the British tourists were also thought to have spoken in support of the police investigation.

    There were huge protests outside Thailand's embassy in Myanmar's capital city, Yangon, which lasted a couple of days following the sentencing of Lin and Htun in December 2015.

    Reuters noted that although Lin and Htun were given the death penalty, this mode of punishment has not been carried out in many years in Thailand.

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/myanmar-men...ntence-1635897
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    Shan State court sentences two men to death for murder, rape of teenage girl

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    The Kentung District court in eastern Shan State has sentenced two men to be hanged over the rape and murder of an 18-year-old high school student.

    “In this case, a girl was raped, burned to death, and thrown away. An investigation of a ring found on the corpse led to the arrest of the two suspects…The district court sentenced them to death by hanging until they definitely die,” a Shan State police official said on Sept. 17.

    The case began last December, when an unidentified woman’s charred body was found near a hydropower station in Kengtung Township. Using a ring found on the body, police identified the woman as one who had been missing for five days.

    Suspect Soe Lwin, 40, was arrested by police in the town of Kengtung three days after the body was found and pleaded guilty to rape and murder the following day.

    Suspect Aik Pe, also known as Sai Shen, 29, was arrested in the town of Thazi, where he was on trial for his alleged role in a car accident.

    “This is the heaviest sentence ever passed by the district court,” a police officer told Eleven.

    Murder carries the death penalty in Myanmar, but it has not been carried out in decades. Rape carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence, but as the number of rapes have been rising in Myanmar over the last few years, activists have called for harsher punishments for rapists, including the death penalty.

    “Until the death penalty is carried out, this will keep happening,” one activists told Coconuts in March. “We need to make an example of at least 10 of these rapists. If we make an example of them, like they do in other countries, this problem will be greatly lessened.”

    https://coconuts.co/yangon/news/shan...-teenage-girl/

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    Man Sentenced to Death Penalty for Murder of 19-year-old Student

    By Zarni Mann
    The Irrawaddy

    MANDALAY — The Kyaukse Township court sentenced three men involved in the killing of a student from the Kyaukse Government Technical Institute on Monday. One man received the death penalty and two others received lengthy sentences.

    Aung Thu Hein, who stabbed Ko Nay Min Htet to death, received the death penalty. Min Khant Kyaw received 21 years imprisonment and Min Chit Aung received 20 years imprisonment for involvement in the fight that led to the killing of Ko Nay Min Htet.

    “The court should sentence all three people to the death penalty to set an example. However, we are satisfied with the severity of the penalty as is,” said U Toe Wai Phyo, the uncle of Ko Nay Min Htet.

    Ko Nay Min Htet, 19, was in his final year at Kyaukse Government Technical Institute when he was playing a game on his cell phone while traveling with a friend in August 2018. Three men approached the pair and grabbed Ko Nay Min Htet’s phone.

    When the two friends asked the robbers to return the phone, they were beaten up and U Nay Min Htet was stabbed to death.

    Aung Thu Hein, Min Khant Kyaw and Min Chit Aung were arrested hours after the incident.

    They were brought to court and faced charges for theft, murder and being accomplices to these crimes.

    https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma...d-student.html

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    Myanmar Military Tribunal Sentences Eight More Youths to Death

    By THE IRRAWADDY

    A Myanmar military tribunal has handed down death sentences to eight more youths accused of attacking junta targets in Yangon, bringing the total number of those facing the death penalty since the coup to over 110. They were sentenced under the Counter-Terrorism Law.

    One of the eight was sentenced in absentia and the others in person on Wednesday. The junta claimed in an announcement on Thursday that the eight including two women killed an alleged informant in North Okkalapa Township and were involved in gun and explosives attacks on the township police station and its forces.

    The junta added that the youths had associated with designated terrorist groups.

    Death sentences have been handed down to anti-regime protesters in townships currently under martial law, despite international condemnation. The military regime has imposed martial law in Hlaing Tharyar, Shwepyithar, South Dagon, North Dagon, Dagon Seikkan and North Okkalapa townships in Yangon, as well as in townships in Mandalay.

    Until late last month, the junta had sentenced 98 people to death including two minors for the alleged offenses of high treason; sedition; obstructing military personnel and civil servants performing their duties; and having ties to unlawful associations, according to rights group the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.

    The junta on Thursday also handed harsh sentences to more than a dozen young people opposed to its rule.

    Among them were Yangon University of Economics Students’ Union chair and treasurer Ko Khant Thu Aung, as well as Ma Yin Myat Noe Oo, Ko Phyo Kyawt Naing and Ko Min Hein Khant from the same university. The four were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labor by Yangon’s Insein Prison Court on Thursday under incitement charges for allegedly supplying information to a foreign journalist.

    Ma Yin Myat Noe Oo, 22, also previously faced a three-year prison term under the same charge for putting up anti-junta posters.

    Dagon University student Ko Kyaw Linn Htut; Ma Su Yee Lin, a member of a Yangon-based students’ union; and freelance journalist Ko Zaw Linn Htut were also sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.

    In Dawei city, Tanintharyi Region, three youths—Ma Soe Mie Mie Kyaw, who earlier attempted to commit suicide after being tortured, Ko Soe Pyae Aung and Ma
    Shar Pyae Khin—were handed an additional five years in prison on top of their previous two-year sentences by the Dawei Prison Court on Thursday.

    Since the coup, the junta has killed at least 1,723 people and arrested more than 13,000 including elected leaders, lawmakers, activists, medics, students and children, mostly for opposing its rule.

    https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma...-to-death.html
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    Myanmar to execute a former MP from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party, its first use of death penalty in decades

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    Myanmar's military government says appeals by two prominent democracy activists against their death sentences have been rejected, paving the way for the country's first executions in decades.

    The government has received widespread condemnation abroad for ousting an elected government in a coup more than a year ago, and for the brutal crackdown that it has since unleashed on critics, opposition members and activists.

    Kyaw Min Yu, a veteran democracy activist, and Phyo Zayar Thaw, an MP for the former ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, were sentenced to death by a military tribunal in January on charges of treason and terrorism, according to a junta statement at the time.

    The United Nations said it was "deeply troubled" by Friday's announcement, which UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric described as a blatant human rights violation.

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for charges to be dropped "against those arrested on charges related to the exercise of their fundamental freedoms and rights and for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Myanmar," Mr Dujarric said.

    It was unclear whether Kyaw Min Yu and Phyo Zayar Thaw had denied the charges against them. The junta statement did not mention their pleas.

    Their appeals against the sentences were rejected, a junta spokesperson said, though it was unclear by whom. The activists' representatives could not be reached for comment.

    "Previously, the convicts sentenced to death could appeal and if no decision was made, then their death sentences would not be implemented," junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun told BBC Burmese.

    "At this time, that appeal was rejected so the death sentences are going to be implemented," he said.

    He did not say when the executions would take place.

    Judges in Myanmar sentence offenders to death for serious crimes including murder, but no one has been executed in decades.

    Death sentences spike under junta

    The last judicial execution to be carried out in Myanmar is generally believed to have been of another political offender, student leader Salai Tin Maung Oo, in 1976 under a previous military government led by dictator Ne Win.

    In 2014, the sentences of prisoners on death row were commuted to life imprisonment, but several dozen convicts received death sentences between then and last year's coup.

    The military took power after complaining of fraud in a November 2020 general election won by Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD.

    Election monitoring groups found no evidence of mass fraud.

    The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which tracks arrests and state-conducted killings, says Myanmar courts have handed down death sentences to 114 political offenders, including two children, since the army seized power from Ms Suu Kyi's elected government in February last year.

    Last year's army takeover triggered nationwide popular protests, which turned into a low-level insurgency after nonviolent demonstrations were met with deadly force by the security forces.

    The Assistance Association estimates that 1,887 civilians have died at the hands of police and the military in crackdowns against opponents of military rule.

    Some resistance groups have engaged in assassinations, drive-by shootings and bombings in urban areas.

    The mainstream opposition organisations generally disavow such activities, while supporting armed resistance in rural areas, which are more often subject to brutal military attacks.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-...ades/101126086
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    Myanmar executes NLD lawmaker, 3 other political opponents

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    Myanmar's government announced Monday it had carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years, hanging a former National League for Democracy lawmaker, a democracy activist and two men accused of violence after the country's takeover by the military last year.

    The executions, detailed in the state-run Mirror Daily newspaper, were carried out despite worldwide pleas for clemency for the four political prisoners, including from United Nations experts and Cambodia, which holds the rotating chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

    The four were executed “in accordance with legal procedures” for directing and organizing "violent and inhuman accomplice acts of terrorist killings,” the newspaper reported. It did not say when the executions were carried out.

    Aung Myo Min, human rights minister for the National Unity Government, a shadow civilian administration established outside Myanmar after the military seized power in February 2021, rejected the allegations the men were involved in violence.

    “Punishing them with death is a way to rule the public through fear,” he told The Associated Press.

    Among those executed was Phyo Zeya Thaw, a former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, also known as Maung Kyaw, who was convicted in January by a closed military court of offenses involving explosives, bombings and financing terrorism.

    His wife, Thazin Nyunt Aung, told the AP she had not been informed his execution had been carried out. “I am still trying to confirm it myself,” she said.

    The 41-year-old had been arrested last November based on information from people detained for shooting security personnel, state media said at the time. He was also accused of being a key figure in a network that carried out what the military described as terrorist attacks in Yangon, the country’s biggest city.

    Phyo Zeya Thaw had been a hip-hop musician before becoming a member of the Generation Wave political movement formed in 2007. He was jailed in 2008 under a previous military government after being accused of illegal association and possession of foreign currency.

    Also executed was Kyaw Min Yu, a 53-year-old democracy activist better known as Ko Jimmy, for violating the counterterrorism law. Kyaw Min Yu was one of the leaders of the 88 Generation Students Group, veterans of a failed 1988 popular uprising against military rule.

    He already had spent more than a dozen years behind bars for political activism before his arrest in Yangon last October. He had been put on a wanted list for social media postings that allegedly incited unrest and state media said he was accused of terrorist acts including mine attacks and of heading a group called Moon Light Operation to carry out urban guerrilla attacks.

    The other two men, Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw, were convicted of torturing and killing a woman in March 2021 whom they allegedly believed was a military informer.

    Myanmar’s Foreign Ministry had rejected the wave of criticism that followed its announcement in June, declaring that Myanmar's judicial system is fair and that Phyo Zeya Thaw and Kyaw Min Yu were “proven to be masterminds of orchestrating full-scale terrorist attacks against innocent civilians to instill fear and disrupt peace and stability.”

    “They killed at least 50 people,” military spokesperson Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun said on live television last month. He said the decision to hang all four prisoners conformed with the rule of law and the purpose was to prevent similar incidents in the future.

    The military's seizure of power from Suu Kyi’s elected government triggered peaceful protests that soon escalated to armed resistance and then to widespread fighting that some U.N. experts characterize as a civil war.

    Some resistance groups have engaged in assassinations, drive-by shootings and bombings in urban areas. Mainstream opposition organizations generally disavow such activities, while supporting armed resistance in rural areas that are more often subject to brutal military attacks.

    According to Myanmar law, executions must be approved by the head of the government. The last judicial execution to be carried out in Myanmar is generally believed to have been of another political offender, student leader Salai Tin Maung Oo, in 1976 under a previous military government led by dictator Ne Win.

    In 2014, the sentences of prisoners on death row were commuted to life imprisonment, but several dozen convicts received death sentences between then and last year’s takeover.

    The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a non-governmental organization that tracks killing and arrests, said Friday that 2,114 civilians have been killed by security forces since the military takeover. It said 115 other people had been sentenced to death.

    https://www.lmtonline.com/news/artic...l-17326346.php
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Executed Myanmar prisoners deserved 'many death sentences':

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    Myanmar's junta lashed out on Tuesday (Jul 26) against international condemnation of the country's first use of capital punishment in decades, saying the four executed prisoners - two of them prominent democracy fighters - "deserved many death sentences".

    The executions announced on Monday sparked condemnation from around the globe, heightened fears that more will follow and prompted calls for sterner international measures against the already-isolated junta.

    On Tuesday, military spokesman Zaw Min Tun insisted the men "were given the right to defend themselves according to court procedure".

    "If we compare their sentence with other death penalty cases, they have committed crimes for which they should have been given death sentences many times," he said at a regular press briefing in the capital Naypyidaw.

    "They harmed many innocent people. There were many big losses which could not be replaced."

    "This was justice for the people," said Zaw Min Tun.

    "I knew it would raise criticism but it was done for justice. It was not personal."

    The prisoners, who included a former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party, had been allowed to meet family members through video conferencing, he said, without providing details.

    The junta had previously rejected criticism from the UN and western countries over the death sentences.

    Phyo Zeya Thaw, a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) was sentenced to death in January for offences under anti-terrorism laws.

    Democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu - better known as "Jimmy" - received the same sentence from the military tribunal.

    The two other men were sentenced to death for killing a woman they alleged was an informer for the junta in Yangon.

    The junta has sentenced dozens of anti-coup activists to death as part of its crackdown on dissent after seizing power last year, but Myanmar had not carried out an execution in decades.

    After a chorus of international condemnation on Monday, including from the UN, the United States and European countries, there was fresh criticism of the junta on Tuesday.

    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc, which has led diplomatic efforts to end the crisis, issued a stinging rebuke on Tuesday, calling the executions "highly reprehensible".

    In a statement issued by current chair Cambodia, it accused the junta of a "gross lack of will" to engage with ASEAN's efforts to facilitate dialogue between the military and its opponents.

    In Bangkok, hundreds of people staged a noisy protest outside the Myanmar embassy.

    Some held photos of Ko Jimmy and Phyo Zeya Thaw alongside Aung San Suu Kyi as they chanted "We want democracy".

    Malaysia's foreign minister Saifuddin Abdullah slammed the executions calling it a "crime against humanity".

    He called for a review of the so-called five-point consensus agreed by Southeast Asian leaders last year aimed at defusing the political crisis in Myanmar following a coup.

    He also accused the junta of making a mockery of the ASEAN peace plan and said it should be barred from sending political representatives to any international ministerial level meetings.

    "We hope we have seen the last of the executions," he said. "We will try to use whatever channels that we can to ensure this will not happen again."

    UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, said he was concerned the executions of junta opponents would not be a one-off.

    "There is every indication that the military junta intends to continue to carry out executions of those on death row, as it continues to bomb villages and detain innocent people throughout the country," he said in an interview on Monday.

    In Myanmar's biggest city Yangon, security was tightened at the jail where the four executed men had been held, a human rights group said on Tuesday, following the global outcry and a demonstration by inmates over the execution.

    Two sources told Reuters a protest had taken place in the jail. News portal Myanmar Now said some inmates had been assaulted by prison authorities and were separated from the general population.

    Spokespersons for Yangon's Insein prison and the corrections department did not answer calls from Reuters.

    Myanmar's shadow national Unity Government (NUG), which the junta calls "terrorists", urged coordinated international action against the junta on Tuesday and said those executed "were martyred for their commitment to a free and democratic Myanmar".

    https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia...cution-2836106
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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