Myanmar junta sentences 78 people to death since coup: survey

By Wai Hin Soe
10 January 2022
Myanmar junta sentences 78 people to death since coup: survey

The Assistance Association for Former Political Prisoners (AAPP) announced in their survey on January 8 that the Military Council had sentenced 78 people to death, including two children under the age of 18, during the Spring Revolution.

In the 11 months since the February coup, 8,468 people were detained. Out of them, 534 were sentenced to imprisonment and 39 were sentenced to death, including two children under the age of 18.

In addition, the total number of fugitives was 1,966, and out of them 39 were sentenced to death in absentia, so, the total number of people who were sentenced to death stands at 78.

The survey said that of those arrested, the exact number of those released from prisons and the list of their names are not yet available and still need to be confirmed.

AAPP keeps track on individual cases and the details of arrests.

According to a survey conducted by AAPP, Maung Min Khant Zaw, a first-year student at Sagaing College of Education, and Maung Aung Pyae Phyo, a first-year student at Mandalay University of Foreign Studies, were arrested on the east exit road of Tangse township, Sagaing region on January 4. They were shot and wounded by the Military Council on the east exit of Tangse town. In addition to having their hair pulled out, they were chained by their neck and forced to shout, "I am a Mingin PDF member and the uprising must fail."

Similarly, Maung Khant Zin Htwe, a 14-year-old bricklayer, Maung Aung Thet Phyo and Maung Ye Zaw Htike, 17, were shot dead after junta troops entered and opened fire on Kin Shait village in Thayet Chaung Township, Tanintharyi region on January 8, according to the AAPP survey