May 6. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The military junta that governs Burma has announced this Friday that it has commuted the death sentence declared against 38 prisoners accused of crimes against the regime after the coup d’état in February 2021 but local NGOs have demanded that the military identify by name the designated to dispel doubts about the veracity of the announcement.
The announcement was made through a brief statement published by the junta’s Commission for Human Rights in the military regime’s spokesperson, the Global New Light of Myanmar, where the panel expressed its “satisfaction” with the decision, which replaces death sentences to life imprisonment, and “hopes to take similar positive steps in the future.”
“As they have not released the identities of the prisoners, more verification is needed in this regard,” the NGO of the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners has made known on its Twitter account.
The military junta, it should be remembered, released on Wednesday 2,135 prisoners detained during the protests that took place after the coup. The amnestied left the Insein prison in Rangoon, where they were imprisoned for inciting an uprising.
The measure was taken on the occasion of the Buddhist festival of Vesak.
Burma has been plunged into a serious crisis since the coup and the Government of National Unity, the Burmese democratic authorities in exile, has indicated that the Burmese Army has committed more than thirty massacres of civilians throughout the country since the seizure of power.
