The Sagaing Myanmar Defence Force (MDF- (Sagaing)) has said that if the Military Council starts judicially executing people that it will respond with killings.

On 21 January 2022 Ko Jimmy, the prominent 88 generation leader and Phyo Zayar Thaw, a former National League For Democracy (NLD) MP were sentenced to death by a military tribunal.

On 3 June the Military Council issued a statement confirming that both will be executed.

MDF (Sagaing) responded by saying that if they are executed they would take an “eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” in revenge.

“This is an unjust judgement”, said The MDF Battalion (1) Information Officer Captain Taw Win.

“People such as Ko Jimmy and Ko Zayar Thaw are big heroes of our revolution. We denounce this kind of injustice. If they [the junta] carry out the execution, we will do similar things [to the junta]….They will get what they deserve”, he continued.

The 3 June Military Council statement said that two other men will also be executed. They are Ko Hla Myo Aung and Ko Aung Thu Zaw who were sentenced to death for killing a school teacher, whom they allege was a Military Council informer, in Yangon’s Hlaing Tha Yar Township.

No date has yet been set for the executions.

The last time anyone sentenced to death was executed in Myanmar was in 1990.