Ethnic armed group in Myanmar sentences man to death in public hearing

A Myanmar ethnic armed group has sentenced a man to death for murder after a public hearing in a town recently captured from the junta, media affiliated with the group reported.

Officials from the United Wa State Army (UWSA) convicted the man of murdering an eight-year-old girl, Wa News Land said on Wednesday.

The post said the girl was killed during a robbery at a grocery store in Shan State’s Hopang town in August, and authorities arrested the man two months later.

The UWSA is the best-equipped of Myanmar’s dozen or so ethnic armed groups and has close ties to China, which analysts say supplies most of its weapons.

It operates a semi-autonomous region bordering China’s Yunnan Province that uses China’s Yuan currency and gets its electricity and internet from Chinese providers.

The group took control. . .

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