Myanmar: People alarmed as civilian judge gives first death penalties since coup

YANGON, Myanmar - A regime court sentenced to death five people detained for their alleged involvement in a deadly August 2021 shooting on a train in Yangon on Thursday.

On September 3, 2021, the Myanmar military apprehended four men and one woman in Yangon.

Six police officers were killed on a train traveling Yangon's circle line during the attack, which occurred amid a nationwide wave of armed resistan