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SCMP: Two Burmese Executed in China



Subject: SCMP: Two Burmese Executed in China.

South China Morning Post


Tuesday, June 29, 1999

Three foreigners executed

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

At least 125 drug traffickers, including one Pakistani and two Burmese
nationals, were executed in
last week's massive crackdown on drug related crimes, official sources have
revealed.

The two Burmese men were killed on Friday in Kunming, Yunnan province, a
provincial official said
yesterday.

They had been found guilty of drug smuggling and handed the death sentence
by the Yunnan
Provincial Intermediate Court along with seven Chinese traffickers,
including a woman, a court
spokesman said.

On Thursday, a Pakistani man was executed in the capital of the Xinjiang
autonomous region, an
Urumqi Intermediate People's Court official said.

The man, who was convicted of smuggling nearly 200 grams of heroin and 260
grams of opium, was
put to death on the same day as five Chinese in the same city.

The crackdown coincided with International Narcotics Control Day on June
26, an occasion which
leads to numerous executions on the mainland each year.

While Beijing does not publish official statistics on executions, media
outlets reported 39 executions
on Thursday and 32 on Friday across the country.

Newspapers reported yesterday that 14 traffickers had been executed in
Fujian province, eight in
Guangxi and six in Sichuan province. Other deaths had earlier been reported
in Shenzhen,
Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Lansu in Gansu province.