The US State Department has reacted to the murder of four democracy activists in a state-sanctioned execution, promising that there could be “further measures” to punish the army junta.
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price called on countries to refuse to recognise the junta as Myanmar’s rightful authorities refuses to sell gross sales of army tools to the military-controlled nation.
“All choices are on the desk.”
Odd said that previously ignored of the list of sanctions, Myanmar’s fuel exports might be leveraged as the US reconsiders the present state of affairs.
He has also called on China to leverage its energy to influence the present leadership’s actions and supported the ASEAN bloc to maintain up its precedent of barring Burmese junta representatives from its conferences.
The Burmese junta seized power within the early morning of February 1 last yr.
The 4 people executed were…
• Kyaw Min Yu (aka. Ko Jimmy)
The fifty three year previous rose to prominence as a pupil chief through the 1988 rebellion in opposition to Myanmar’s earlier army regime.
• Phyo Zeya Thaw
The 41 12 months old was a former politician from Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected ‘National League for Democracy’ and was an in depth ally of the ousted chief.
• Hla Myo Aung, and
• Aung Thura Zaw
The pair were convicted on April 12 and sentenced to dying the following month. The prosecutors at the trial mentioned that that they had killed a woman who was suspected of being an informant for the army. The Assistance Association of Political Prisoners, an activist group, mentioned they had been from Yangon and had been involved in protests and resistance movements for the explanation that 2021 coup.
The trials had been held in secret and there was no recordings or rights of enchantment in any of the trials.
The Burmese military’s bloody crackdown has seen greater than 5,600 civilians killed in Myanmar because the coup, based on estimates by an independent analysis institute, which referred to as the death toll “unprecedented” within the country’s historical past, the Institute for Strategy and Policy (ISP Myanmar).
The country’s first executions in many years have triggered a world outcry.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews…
“I am outraged and devastated at the news of the junta’s execution of Myanmar patriots and champions of human rights and democracy. My coronary heart goes out to their families, friends, and loved ones and indeed all of the individuals in Myanmar who are victims of the junta’s escalating atrocities… These wicked acts should be a turning point for the worldwide community.”
Acting Asia Director at Human Rights Watch, Elaine Pearson…
“The Myanmar junta’s execution of 4 males was an act of utter cruelty. These executions … adopted grossly unjust and politically motivated army trials. The junta’s barbarity and callous disregard for human life purpose to relax the anti-coup protest movement. European Union member states, the United States, and other governments should present the junta that there will be a reckoning for its crimes.”
Amnesty International International Regional Director, Erwin van der Borght…
“These executions amount to arbitrary deprivation of lives and are one other example of Myanmar’s atrocious human rights record. The four males have been convicted by a navy court in highly secretive and deeply unfair trials. The international group should act immediately as greater than one hundred people are believed to be on demise row after being convicted in similar proceedings.”
Neither the Thai authorities nor leading Thai politicians have made any public statement about the executions..