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YANGON, Myanmar: Myanmar's junta on Tuesday lashed out against international condemnation of the Southeast Asian country's first use of capital punishment in decades, saying the four executed prisoners — two of them prominent democracy fighters — "deserved many death sentences."
The executions announced on Monday sparked condemnation worldwide, heightened fears that more would follow and prompted calls for sterner international measures against the already isolated junta.
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