After 18 months of tap-dancing about the world community's demands for a ceasefire and peaceful negotiations since its coup, Myanmar's military government has portrayed its dark spirit by executing four political activists. They were among 114 opposition activists given the death sentence by the junta court since early this year.
The timing sends a strong and negative signal. The executions were carried out just a week before the Asean Ministerial Meeting to be held in Phnom Penh. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had made personal pleas to the Myanmar junta to reconsider the sentences, without success.
