Myanmar (Burma)
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- military
- CONSTITUTION
- May 10, 2008
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, People's Assembly (Pyithu Hluttaw)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- limited, dependent on the executive
RELIGIONS
89% Buddhists; Hindu, Muslim, and Christian minorities
From the country
- OCTOBER 16, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
A U.N. human rights report described Myanmar's military...
A U.N. human rights report described Myanmar's military government as a Junta that marks itself with torture, rape, summary executions, anti-intellectualism and a general suffocating grip on all parts of society
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Aung San Suu Kyi, special rapporteur to Burma in 1998...
Aung San Suu Kyi, special rapporteur to Burma in 1998 and head of the National League for Democracy, Myanmar's main opposition party, said that "extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the practice of torture and forced labour" are commonplace vio
- AUGUST 21, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Higher People's Court of south China's Guangxi...
The Higher People's Court of south China's Guangxi Zhuang handed down second court verdicts ranging from imprisonment to death for 14 Myanmar pirates charged with raiding a Taiwanese cargo ship and setting its 21 crew members adrift in the Andaman Sea
- JUNE 26, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court in China pronounced death sentences on on Burmese drug smugglers Ying Han and Sai Yan Shan
- JUNE 12, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Major Yan Myint, deputy commander of Myanmar's 224th...
Major Yan Myint, deputy commander of Myanmar's 224th Battalion, arrested nine alleged traffickers at Ban Nakongmoo while they were attempting to cross into Thailand's Chiang Mai Province and confiscated drugs, according to a Thai official
- MAY 22, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority...
Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority and co-director of the Earthrights International (ERI) documented hundreds of cases of rape, execution and confiscation of property carried out by the military, from 1995 to 2000, during the building o
- MAY 18, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar's military rulers sentenced Saw Tin Oo, a member...
Myanmar's military rulers sentenced Saw Tin Oo, a member of the Kayin ethnic armed group, known as "God's Army," to death for "high treason" following an embassy seizure in Bangkok in October 1999
- APRIL 22, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Two Singaporeans have been sentenced to death for trafficking...
Two Singaporeans have been sentenced to death for trafficking in 5kg of heroin
- JANUARY 4, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Hla Win, a 60-year-old Myanmar man was executed in...
Hla Win, a 60-year-old Myanmar man was executed in Thailand for attempting to smuggle 11
- JANUARY 1, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
High treason and premeditated murder are capital crimes
High treason and premeditated murder are capital crimes
- JANUARY 1, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1988
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1988
- NOVEMBER 18, 1999Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
On November 18, Burmese leader Khin Nyunt delivered...
On November 18, Burmese leader Khin Nyunt delivered a comprehensive speech in defense of the country's political system and human rights