Condemn In The Highest Terms The Tatmadaw’s Execution Of Mynamar Activists

The ILPS Commission 10 strongly condemns the execution of four democracy defenders at the hands of the Tatmadaw, the Myanmar military dictatorship, which is led by General Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of the Tatmadaw.

The Tatmadaw accused the four revolutionaries, Phyo Zeya Thaw, Kyaw Min Yu, Hla Myo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw, of committing trumped-up “acts of terrorism” and sentenced them to death through closed-door trials. Ko Jimmy and Phyo Zeya Thaw were given death sentences by a military court on January 21 in accordance with Myanmar’s draconian Counterterrorism Law of 2014. In April 2021, Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw were found guilty of the alleged murder of a military informant.

Since its military coup, we see that the Tatmadaw has made no pretense of supporting democracy and upholding the rights of the people. The military junta’s brutality endangers several others who have received death sentences from the junta as 117 political prisoners have received death sentences since the coup. The military dictatorship of Tatmadaw remains the mastermind of heinous acts and rights abuses with impunity.

It is the military dictatorship of Tatmadaw that has put 600,000 Rohingyas in Rakhine State to face continuing genocide; around 177,000 Karen people were displaced as of June; and several thousand people had fled fighting in northern Kachin and the Shan States. To make matters worse, the Myanmar military, the perpetrator of fascism, shelling, burning and massacre of communities, weaponizes humanitarian aid while whitewashing its grave crimes of humanitarian crisis and terrorism.

The Commission also denounces the imperialist governments of China and Russia, including Israel, Belarus, India and South Korea, for selling and profiting from war arms to Tatmadaw; and the major oil and gas US company Chevron and Fench-company Total which supply aviation fuel to Tatmadaw jets air striking opponents of the Tatmadaw dictatorship.

We express our deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathies for the victims’ families, friends of ethnic nationalities, and the people of Myanmar who are living in fear of the military dictatorship. We offer our highest salute to the revolutionary ethnic nationalities and activists struggling for genuine peace, freedom and democracy.

The violence of the Tatmadaw will not stop unless it is met with the revolutionary and just cause of the ethnic groups and peoples of Myanmar, together with international solidarity, for genuine democracy and peace-based on justice.

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