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Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta lashed out Tuesday against international condemnation of the country's first use of capital punishment in decades, saying the four executed prisoners -- two of them prominent democracy fighters -- "deserved many death sentences".

Kyaw Min Yu, Phyo Zeya Thaw, Hla Myo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw were executed in Myanmar.

Sentenced to death in closed-door trials in January and April, the four men had been accused of helping insurgents to fight the army that seized power in a coup last year and unleashed a bloody crackdown on its opponents

The executions under the military-led government are the first in decades and raise fears of more to come.

The UN and rights groups condemned the executions of the activists including a former lawmaker in Aung San Suu Kyi’s party.

The Myanmar junta's plans to execute political opponents may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity, a UN official said Monday. 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…

The wife of pro-democracy figure Kyaw Min Yu, sentenced to be executed on the orders of Myanmar's ruling generals, says that if her husband dies he will take with him the beliefs he has carried throughout a life spent fighting dictatorship.

If death sentences against the two political opponents of the coup are carried out they will be the first since 1988.

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta on Monday expressed its "utmost indignation" at a French diplomatic snub describing it as an illegitimate government, warning it could threaten bilateral ties.