is ma'am magenta to negotiate with his political opponents, such as is being beijing's policy. shifting on we have an exclusive report from inside me about 2 opposition activists on death row view and says executing them. bill will read as sort of stories in dw news asia in just a moment, and i'll be back to the top of the hour with more world but she's got issues with all say what grade will be for

a sexual assault survivor and saying the truth has women in asia are bad. it people, nothing can stop me. that is taking job with these into starts july 6th with this is the w news asia coming up today in the middle of a civil war. me and mars military hosts a key conference with its regional neighbors. the gathering has been denounced as legitimizing the hunter. china though has urge them to negotiate with their opponents. will have analysis shortly. plus we have an exclusive report from inside

me on my, on to opposition, segers facing execution. ah, i'm jarred raid, welcome to the show. thank you for your company. me unmask military government has hosted its 1st international meeting since it seized power in last year's qu. now the gathering of what's called the land sung me kong cooperation group included china's foreign minister when ye, me and mark stayed, broadcaster reported that wang, i met with his colleagues from me and mar, laos, thailand, cambodia, and vietnam. this grouping is a chinese lead initiative with nations bordering the may con river. potential regional tensions are involved here because of the many hydro electric projects that are changing the rivers flow and possibly damaging its ecology. the meeting was condemned by me on mars, a shadow national unity government,

which opposes the military. but ahead of the meeting, a statement from china drew attention to the insurgent. conflict inside myanmar, foreign minister wang ye, called on the military rulers to negotiate with their opponents. he's part of that statement from china. we encourage all parties in myanmar to engage in political dialogue within the constitutional and legal framework, and restart the process of democratic transformation. but me on massage conflict. now often cold. a civil war is raging ferociously and it's affecting its neighbors to now last week and me and my war plan was filmed as it crossed over into ty airspace several times before attacking rebel positions. tie a school. children in the area were hurried off to fortify buildings on their school grounds. local villages would also evacuated with tie fighter jets scrambling to get to the area. the attack also sent

a wave of people from myanmar to cross over the time border in search of safety. thailand's prime minister later said that the armor had apologized for the incident . meantime, myanmar military says he intends to press a head and execute a group of political opponents activist say they've been denied fair trials and the un believes these executions could amount to war crimes. over $100.00 people have been sentenced to death since the crew last year and the resulting violent crack down on descent. now our next report is about 2 people facing execution. d. w has been given rare access to footage taken inside myanmar. oh hipaa minute and member of parliament, you'll see a port in it, which is it is a few figure in the on most popular movement against the military hunter. he once worked closely with the democratically elected on san sushi now herself in prison.

last year's military could turn pills thine to an actor. whist. he helped organize protest against the hunter. botello. surely we invite you all to come together with us and join us in a cdm on our civil disobedience movement. rumor, rock all of it all along the way. but the military brutally put down those protest . it arrested hundreds of pro democracy activists and sentenced dozens of them, including peers. they are taught to debt. he and long time actor wisco jimmy have been on debt. so since january cold, jimmy's activism goes back decades. last year he was among the forced to go for a mass mobilization against the 2021 military coup here. so yeah, this is the time for the public to rise up in unity. we need to start a movement of the people as amber put me on my state and he ran military images of both go jimmy and pill, seattle, handcuffed with explosives and vans,

answer the hunter, clean the finance dorothy in themselves. mat b. c. political analysts kim's, or when has no one called jimmy since the 1980s, kinsey himself was imprisoned for 11 years, locked up from what the authorities dealing seditious writings under them. well, that's a notable so i think i'm in there thinking the hunter would like to make an example of these t so that all, all the others would also take notes is already bad situation. in grandma, you, the crisis is cruel all out of abortion. passing that that sensors will only make it worse. oh, many young people in myanmar are still resisting the regime. some have gone under gram student lead a non lin spoke to d. w from an undisclosed location which he was yellow was to all of our comrades

were sentenced to death today, including co. jimmy and sir thought, are you into the imprison heroes who are still fighting against a hunter? william, i would like to salute you all, and all we have you, i to rule until our comrades on our people get freedom. all continued to take part in this revolution, no matter what are we are, a revolution must prevail or her. recently and young gone youth activists, hanford, banners protesting the death sentences about the flash mob just as quickly melted away worried the military would also come for them. let's speak now to burmese american journalist. i'm intent features editor at frontier me on my currently based in bangkok. welcome to d, w e news asia. we've just been hearing about the military's plans to execute. dave,

to activists over 100 people have already been sentenced to death by the military. about these would be the 1st to be carried out. why do you think it's the military turning to the death penalty to stamp out resistance? so this isn't just the 1st death penalty solidly carried out us since the crew will actually be the 1st death penalties carried out in the country since 1988 and near my the death penalty has existed for quite a long time and people have been sentenced but successive regimes have actually generally tried to avoid going to this level of escalation in terms of dealing with its opponents. i think some of the motivations that people have been speculating on in terms of why they're doing this, is that one. they could be revenge for killings by resistance forces, or simply to try to scare the resistance to show them that, you know, they're willing to even go further than other regimes in the past have met. some have also speculated that this is a show of power of, for the military supporters,

many of whom are being killed on the streets now, who might also themselves be thirsting for revenge. and others have also speculated that this might be a way for the military to just show that they are in charge, that they are able to embody sort of the ultimate government power, which is to take the lives of its citizens. and this is especially significant as i could you, me and go piazza are both former politicians and so they are not just sort of resistance but also include the clinton. these are kate. so you've, you've run through some of the motivations there. in your opinion, do you think these executions will or maybe terrorize people into submission or will people maybe be delving eyes to, to protest and speak out? i think, considering the fact that most people in this country are now at risk of military violence, especially in the areas of the country where there is active conflict,

this will likely serve to just for, to be legitimize the regime in the eyes of the majority of the countries who not only see this as a regime that can do power in a cool, but now are violating even the most basic understanding of what government does, which is definitely not to carry out that penalties. and it can also have the effect of making negotiations in the future. harder should the military decide at that point to try to do dialogue with any of its enemies, and then may alienate, i like the region when spoken out against the announcement execution. now, when a pick up on 2 words, you said the legitimacy and negotiations, china has been calling on the military and me on my to hold talks with its opponents. what is your take on china? china's motivations trying to getting involved now. so china has been fairly consistent in calling for a political resolution to what has happened in miramar. and the recent

announcements from china have been relatively in line with. but i'm really wants to see a stable nation on its border. has been a place where it wants to do trade, extract natural resources, as well as have a safe access to the indian ocean. what seems to be difference, or what things have changed recently is that china now calling for dialogue between all parties. and it's also recently stated that all parties have reasonable demands, and this sort of shift and language indicates to a lot of analysts that china may be calling on the me and my military to start making compromises. and to start regarding those that has determined to be, are sort of branded as terrorist as legitimate stakeholders in the discussion of the future. antennas. also recently started using way around. we started democratic transition, which some others have interpreted as meaning that china is actually indicating

a support for the military's plan for elections. with some of these efforts you've outlined from china, things that as a young has also been doing. but if it's to help bring peace to me on my have stored should, should as young are, which we should point out is the association of southeast asian nations or should eat change tactics. do you think um, so as you know, has largely been working with the military in terms of sort of who determines to be primary stakeholders in the discussion about numerous future. that means that it has not been meeting with the arrested elective lawmakers from the 2020 election who are overthrown during the coo. it has not been meeting with the parallel civilian government that has risen up since the coo and it has not largely been meeting with ethic armed organizations who have also been in conflict with the member military for decades. and so when it comes to us here we're seeing is an

association that is actually following the lead of the military, even as it's willing to criticize it. and i think many are calling for it to take a much more robust leadership role and to, to start making decisions that are not necessarily being pre approved by the motor regime. or you, we've got about a minute lived. you and i recently spoke about myanmar selections happening next year. i was wondering if you could just talk to our audience about what your most concerned about in these elections next year. yes, i think in terms of the elections, it would be a mil action run by the military hand. it would only allow for parties that is election commission have deemed as legitimate political parties. and so the concern here is that 1st the military is not at the legitimate authority in them or to me by name election. and that people would come at that the military would essentially be using this as an excuse to try to create the veneer of democracy in near my and

that international community. once there is a cause, i legitimate cause, i successful the election that the international committee will sort of lose interest and stop pushing for greater change at miramar. that was journalist. i mean 10. we really thank you for your analysis. thank you. thank you for having me in that seat for to day on t w. use asia, i'm jarrett ray to see to martin with do you like it? do you want it? okay. then buckle up, put the pedal to the metal and let's ride. mm.

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