Myanmar's Junta has sentenced over 20 anti-coup activists to death

[ASEAN NOW Content Team]

 

 

On Tuesday, Myanmar military tribunals sentenced 21 people to death for their suspected roles in attacks on military targets.
Another 29 persons were sentenced to life in prison.

People suspected of assassinating two regime-appointed local administrators in Yangon's South Dagon Township, as well as an alleged military informant and a ward administrator and his driver in Yangon's Dagon Seikkan Township, are among those sentenced to death.
The murders took place in the months of July and August.

 

Those convicted to life in jail were youths suspected of receiving military training in areas controlled by ethnic armies.
People accused of donating to the People's Defense Forces and the civilian National Unity Government, as well as people allegedly participating in bomb attacks on government offices in Yangon's Hlaing Tharyar Township, were also handed life sentences.

Anti-regime protestors in townships currently under martial law have been sentenced to death.
Martial law has been established in Yangon's Hlaing Tharyar, Shwepyithar, South Dagon, North Dagon, Dagon Seikkan, and North Okkalapa townships, as well as Mandalay's townships.

 

Martial law orders established 23 'offences' to be tried in military tribunals in designated townships, all of which carried death or life sentences as penalties.

High treason, sedition, hindering military and civil servants in the performance of their responsibilities, instigation, provocation, distributing 'false' news, weapon possession, ties to unlawful associations, homicide, rape, robbery, corruption, drug abuse, and vandalism are among the crimes listed.

According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, the junta had sentenced 65 people to death up until the end of October, including two children under the age of 18.

The junta has issued arrest warrants for 39 of them, who were tried in their absence.

 

It is thought that none of those who were sentenced to death were executed.
It is believed that the death sentence was last employed in Myanmar in 1988.