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Widow urges activists to ‘go forward’ after four are executed

The wife of Kyaw Min Yu, a prominent democracy activist whose execution by the Myanmar junta caused global outrage, has urged the country’s people not to stop their fight for democracy, but “to go forward with a victory spirit”.

Ma Nilar Thein, 50, told the Guardian she was heartbroken by the killing of her husband but that the public would “hold our hands together in unity”. “We can’t stop just because we’re sad. And, we can’t be mourning.

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