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| Southeast Asia |
| 2 get death for leaking info |
| 2010-01-09 |
| [Straits Times] TWO officials have been sentenced to death by a Myanmar court for leaking information, in a case reportedly involving secret ties between the ruling junta and nuclear-armed North Korea. They were among three men arrested last year after details and photographs of a trip to North Korea by Myanmar's third-in-command were leaked to exiled media, reports said. 'Two officials got the death sentence and another was jailed for 15 years for leaking information. They were sentenced at the special court in Insein Prison on Thursday,' said an official source. The two condemned men are retired army major Win Naing Kyaw and Foreign Ministry official Thura Kyaw, while the third man is Pyan Sein, also a Foreign Ministry employee. The death penalty is rarely carried out in Myanmar as sentences are almost always commuted to life imprisonment. The special court at Insein on Thursday sentenced the two men to death for leaking military secrets, under the Emergency Provisions Act, reported Thailand-based magazine Irrawaddy. It cited sources at the notorious jail in Yangon, where hundreds of dissidents are held. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Hmmm, they Maybe the ones who leaked the arms plane that was stoped? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-01-09 01:16 |