A Myanmar ethnic armed group sentenced a man to death for murder following a public trial in a town recently captured from the junta, media affiliated to the group reported.
Officials from the United Wa State Army (UWSA) sentenced the man for murdering an eight-year-old girl, Wa News Land said on Wednesday.
The girl was killed in August during a robbery at a grocery shop in the town of Hopang, in Shan State, and the authorities arrested the man two months later, the post said.
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 much of its weaponry.
It runs a semi-autonomous enclave on the border with China’s Yunnan Province which uses China’s yuan currency and gets its electricity and internet from Chinese providers.
The group took control of. . .
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