France’s international ministry on Friday summoned Myanmar’s ambassador to Paris to protest in opposition to the execution of 4 political prisoners by the navy junta, a diplomatic supply advised AFP.
“The Myanmar ambassador was additionally reminded of our name for a right away finish to the violence perpetrated by the Myanmar navy regime, the discharge of all these arbitrarily detained because the coup in February 2021 and the institution of a dialogue course of together with all stakeholders,” the supply added.
The executions introduced Monday are Myanmar’s first in many years and have heightened fears that extra will comply with, prompting requires more durable worldwide measures in opposition to the already-isolated junta.
Among the many 4 executed have been Phyo Zeya Thaw, a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nationwide League for Democracy (NLD) and veteran democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu — higher referred to as “Ko Jimmy”.
Each have been sentenced to dying underneath anti-terrorism legal guidelines.
Myanmar’s junta has hit again at worldwide condemnation of its use of capital punishment, saying the 4 executed prisoners “deserved many dying sentences”.
