YANGON: Myanmar's junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent activist, state media said on Monday, in the country's first use of capital punishment in decades.

The four were executed for leading "brutal and inhumane terror acts," the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said.

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