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Silencing Voices: Myanmar's military executes activists, five more face immediate threat
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar - Myanmar's military administration has executed two anti-coup activists and plans to execute five more shortly, according to rights groups, urging the international community to take action.
Maung Kaung Htet and his wife, Chan Myae Thu, were executed at 4 a.m.
Myanmar time (21:30 GMT) on September 23, according to a Women's Peace Network statement released on Monday.
The couple were convicted "without due process and a fair trial" for allegedly being involved in a package bomb attempt on Yangon's Insein Prison in October 2022, according to the rights group.
It warned that five other pro-democracy activists - Kaung Pyae Sone Oo, Zeyar Phyo, Hsann Min Aung, Kyaw Win Soe, and Myat Phyo Myint - were under threat of execution.
The five were found guilty in a closed court in May 2023 after being imprisoned since September 2021 for the alleged fatal shooting of four police o