Ye Yint Aung remembers listening to Myanmar's first hip-hop album almost every day after primary school.Amnesty International believes China is executing thousands, but official numbers are unknown
Myanmar has seen an "alarming" rise in the number of people sentenced to death, while China, North Korea and Vietnam continue to carry out executions in secret, according to aThe numbers increased around eight-fold in Myanmar, "where the death penalty became a tool for the military in the ongoing and widespread persecution, intimidation and harassment" of protesters, the report said.
According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, more than 1,850 people have been killed since the coup. Mary Aung, a student activist in Australia, said many of the death sentences were given "unjustly and unfairly", often to young people fighting for democracy."We don't believe in the justice system in Myanmar at all, we've already lost trust in it."The global report on death sentences and executions in 2021 comes weeks after Singapore's hangingAmnesty International campaigner Rose Kulak said that case sparked outrage.
"I don't know how people manage knowing that they're on death row and they can be executed at any time.""Australia needs to be doing more — we are living right next door to the highest executing region in the world," she said. The human rights group also had limited access to numbers from North Korea, saying it was impossible to independently verify reports, and Vietnam, which also classifies the data as a state secret.
Didn’t know Myanmar is part of Australia 🤷♂️