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Jul 26, 2022
Myanmar executes former lawmaker, political prisoners in “blatant attempts to extinguish democracy”
Amid a violent crackdown on pro-democracy movements, Myanmar’s military junta executed four men, including a prominent activist and a former lawmaker. As family members of the political prisoner reel from the loss, human rights experts and many in the international community have decried the country’s first judicial executions in decades. The U.S. Secretary of State described the executions as “blatant attempts to extinguish democracy.” Phyo Zeya Thaw, one of the men executed, was a former…