A married couple reportedly executed on Monday with 5 extra individuals dealing with the demise penalty on Tuesday.
Myanmar’s army regime has executed two anti-coup activists and plans to execute 5 extra on September 24, rights teams have stated, urging motion from the worldwide group.
Maung Kaung Htet and his spouse Chan Myae Thu have been executed at 4am Myanmar time (21:30 GMT) on September 23, the Girls’s Peace Community stated in a press release on Monday.
The pair have been convicted “with out due course of and a good trial” over their alleged involvement in a parcel bomb attack on Yangon’s Insein Jail in October 2022, the rights group stated.
It warned that 5 extra pro-democracy activists – Kaung Pyae Sone Oo, Zeyar Phyo, Hsann Min Aung, Kyaw Win Soe and Myat Phyo Myint – have been prone to execution on Tuesday.
The 5 have been convicted in a closed court docket in Could 2023 after being imprisoned since September 2021 for the alleged deadly taking pictures of 4 law enforcement officials on a Yangon practice.
“By murdering extra individuals, the junta can be additional emboldened to execute the remaining over 120 different detainees additionally charged with sham demise penalties,” the Girls’s Peace Community stated.
Myanmar’s army, which seized energy in a coup in February 2021, shocked the world when it executed 4 pro-democracy activists in July 2022 within the first use of the demise penalty because the late Eighties.
The disaster in Myanmar has solely deepened since with the generals dealing with a renewed offensive from ethnic armed teams allied with pro-democracy teams throughout swaths of territory.
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which is main diplomatic efforts to resolve the disaster, to talk out.
“Break the silence,” stated Mercy Chriesty Barends, APHR chairperson and a member of Indonesia’s Home of Representatives. “ASEAN overseas ministers should communicate up towards the SAC execution coverage.”
APHR added that it had been knowledgeable the 5 activists dealing with execution had endured torture and sexual violence with none entry to dependable authorized help.
“We’re gravely involved that the demise penalty is getting used to silence individuals with dissenting views in Myanmar,” stated Arlene D Brosas, APHR board member and a member of parliament within the Philippines.
There was no point out of the executions or the demise sentences in Myanmar’s state media on Tuesday. Calls to army spokesman Zaw Min Tun weren’t answered.
Nicholas Koumjian, the top of the Impartial Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), stated the United Nations physique was “intently monitoring stories of deliberate executions of individuals sentenced to demise in private trials” noting that such executions would possibly represent a number of crimes towards humanity or battle crimes.
“Probably the most basic attributes of a good trial is that or not it’s held in public except there are compelling nationwide safety causes,” Koumjian stated in a press release. “When proceedings usually are not public, this casts doubt on whether or not different truthful trial ensures have been revered, such because the requirement that the tribunal was neutral and unbiased.”
The IIMM assertion didn’t title the individuals prone to execution.
The Help Affiliation for Political Prisoners, which has been monitoring the crackdown because the coup, says some 20,934 individuals are in detention and that 123 prisoners have been sentenced to demise.