GENEVA (AFP):The Myanmar junta's plans to execute political opponents may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity, a UN official said Monday (June 20).
The junta said on June 3 it would execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both convicted of terrorism, in what would be the country's first judicial executions since 1990.
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