CNI News
25 July 2022
The execution of four people including Ko Jimmy and Ko Phyo Zeyar Thaw will further fuel the public resistance against the State Administration Council, Advocate U Kyee Myint told the CNI.
The People’s Defence Forces announced that they would respond to the executions of democracy activists while the public protests would intensify tenfold, he said.
U Kyee Myint said, “ The PDfs have already announced that they would’t tolerate the execution of democracy activists on behalf of the people and will respond accordingly. Furthermore, as they executed the activists despite the protests of the international community including the USA, the EU, France, the ASEAN, they have expressed that they don’t need to respect the international community as well as the people of Myanmar.It seems that they have announced that they would take the dead end. As they have decided to grasp the last straw and they will get out of the crisis dead or alive by waging war against their own people. As such, the people have to decide whether they will try to achieve victory or will be shot and killed one after another. Almost 80 people have been sentenced to death. I think the military will intensify their atrocities against the people at least three-fold and the last days of the military will arrive soon if the people intensify their resistance against the military ten-fold.”
Ko Jimmy and Ko Phyo Zeyar Thaw.
The SAC information ministry newspapers reported on 25 July that Ko Jimmy, Ko Phyo Zeyar Thaw, Ko Hla Myo Aung and Ko Aung Thuya Zaw were executed in accordance with the rules and regulations.
If a person is to be executed, it is necessary to allow him or her to meet with their families before 20 days they are executed and the executions were not in accordance with the jail manual, U Kyee Myint said.
He told the CNI, “ They have handed down death sentences on about 80 detainees but the four were executed ahead of others and this was against rules and regulations.”
Ko Jimmy of the 88 Generation Open Society and former parliamentarian of the National League for Democracy Ko Phyo Zeyar Thaw were sentenced to death under Section 49 (A) and 50 (H) and (J) on 21 January, according to the SAC.
