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Erin Handley and South-East Asia correspondent Mazoe Ford

Students call for Myanmar junta to #StopExecutingOurFriends after youth activists sentenced to death

From Australia to Thailand and Nepal, young people have been chanting on the streets and scrawling a simple message on the palms of their hands: "Stop executing our friends."

It's a reference to the recent death sentences imposed on at least 10 Myanmar people, including seven young university students.

More than 130 people have been sentenced to death in the South-East Asian nation since a military coup in February last year.

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