Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·FEBRUARY 1, 1999
Myanmar (Burma)

On February 1, a local court in South China handed...

On February 1, a local court in South China handed down sentences ranging from imprisonment to death for 14 Myanmarese pirates charged with raiding a Taiwanese cargo ship and setting its 19 crew members adrift in the Andaman Sea

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On February 1, a local court in South China handed down sentences ranging from imprisonment to death for 14 Myanmarese pirates charged with raiding a Taiwanese cargo ship and setting its 19 crew members adrift in the Andaman Sea. The head of the pirate gang, Maung Htay Aung, was given the death sentence.