CNTV -KUNMING – Myanmar drug lord Naw Kham and three of his accomplices, all of whom wereconvicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011, will be executed bylethal injection on March 1 in the city of Kunming in Southwest China’s Yunnan province, acourt in Kunming said Wednesday.
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he court upheld death penalties for the case’s prime convicts – the Myanmar drug lord NawKham and three of his right-hand men.
The Provincial Higher People’s Court of Yunnan also sustained sentences for the two otherMyanmar convicts, known by their Chinese names Zha Bo and Zha Tuobo. They were handeda death sentence with two-year reprieve and eight years in prison, respectively.
The six were convicted of intentional homicide, drug trafficking, kidnapping and hijacking by alocal court in Kunming, capital of Yunnan, in November.
Nicknamed “The Godfather,” Naw Kham was the boss of the largest illegal armed drugtrafficking gang on the Mekong River, which flows through China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand,Cambodia and Vietnam. Continue reading “MYANMAR-CHINA: GODFATHER OF GOLDEN TRIANGLE Naw Kham and three of his accomplices TO BE EXECUTED MARCH .”
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