The United States calls on China to put pressure on Myanmar

International Desk: After the execution of four pro-democracy activists in Myanmar, the United States has expressed its deep displeasure with the country's ruling junta government. The US State Department has also urged China to be active in increasing pressure on the junta.

In a press conference at the office of the US State Department in Washington on Tuesday, Ministry spokesman Ned Price said, "We strongly condemn this incident." Also, Myanmar is more dependent on China than any other country. Therefore, we sincerely expect China's active role to put pressure on the country's ruling junta.

Myanmar's pro-democracy activist Kyaw Min U alias Ko Jimi and Phyo Zea Thaw, a former member of parliament and ally of the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, were arrested last year by security on charges of aiding armed forces opposed to the military government.

In addition, two pro-democracy activists named Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw were arrested in connection with the murder of a woman accused of providing secret information on anti-government activists to the junta.

After their arrest in the capital Yangon last year, they were sentenced to death in January this January after months of trial in a closed-door court controlled by the junta. Ko Jimi and Phio Jea Thao appealed against the verdict, but the appeal was dismissed by the court last June.

Then on July 25, a report by Myanmar's state-run news agency confirmed that four pro-democracy activists had been executed.

In a regular press conference on Tuesday, the junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun defended the death penalty and said, "If compared to all the death sentences that have been carried out in Myanmar so far, these criminals should be hanged not once, but several times."

He also claimed that before the execution of the death sentence, the convicts have been given the opportunity to talk to their family members through video link.

In response to this statement by the junta spokesman, Ned Price said at a press conference in Washington, "There can never be a normal relationship with the junta." We request all the countries of the world - not to give any kind of loan facility to the rulers in Myanmar and not to sell arms to them.'

"We are trying to keep them under pressure; And this pressure will increase in the future.

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