CCTV broadcasts drug lord's final moments
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March 2, 2013, Saturday
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MYANMAR drug lord Naw Kham and three accomplices, who were convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in October 2011, were executed yesterday afternoon, following a live nationwide broadcast showing them being led to their deaths.
Naw Kham and Hsang Kham, Yi Lai and Zha Xiha were executed by lethal injection in Yunnan Province's capital of Kunming, according to the Intermediate People's Court of Kunming.
China Central Television showed the four being led from their cells at about 2pm.
They could be seen in shackles and handcuffs, with rope binding their arms behind their backs before being placed into court vans and driven to execution chambers.
Prosecutors with the Kunming People's Procuratorate were present to supervise the executions, verify the convicts' identities and ensure the executions were conducted in accordance with the law.
Their deaths were announced two hours later by the Yunnan provincial police department.
After the execution, the bodies were due to be cremated and the remains handed over to relatives, according to Chinese law.
The decision to broadcast the four's final moments was in response to widespread outrage among the Chinese public over the killings, as well as an attempt to emphasize both the heinous nature of the crime and the efficiency of China's police and courts in doling out justice, professor Yu Guoming of the School of Mass Media at Beijing's Renmin University told The Associated Press.
"The brutality of Naw Kham in the killing really got ordinary Chinese people riled up. It's no wonder that it has attracted such huge attention from the public," Yu said.
The gang was accused of ambushing two flat-bottomed Chinese cargo ships on the upper reaches of the Mekong on October 5, 2011, in Myanmar waters infested with gangs making their living from protection rackets and the production and smuggling of heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Naw Kham and his gang members were found to have planned and colluded with Thai soldiers in the attack on the Hua Ping and Yu Xing 8 in which 13 Chinese sailors died.
Under Naw Kham's instructions, several of his subordinates also kidnapped Chinese sailors and hijacked cargo ships in exchange for ransom in early April 2011.
"Why were Naw Kham and his subordinates so brutal with innocent people? That is a question I still ask today," the wife of Huang Yong, captain of the Hua Ping, told Xinhua news agency.
The mother of a 13-year-old child said: "I want my kid to remember this day forever.
"The execution gave me some comfort but could not make me happy. My husband will never be back," she said.
Naw Kham and Hsang Kham, Yi Lai and Zha Xiha were executed by lethal injection in Yunnan Province's capital of Kunming, according to the Intermediate People's Court of Kunming.
China Central Television showed the four being led from their cells at about 2pm.
They could be seen in shackles and handcuffs, with rope binding their arms behind their backs before being placed into court vans and driven to execution chambers.
Prosecutors with the Kunming People's Procuratorate were present to supervise the executions, verify the convicts' identities and ensure the executions were conducted in accordance with the law.
Their deaths were announced two hours later by the Yunnan provincial police department.
After the execution, the bodies were due to be cremated and the remains handed over to relatives, according to Chinese law.
The decision to broadcast the four's final moments was in response to widespread outrage among the Chinese public over the killings, as well as an attempt to emphasize both the heinous nature of the crime and the efficiency of China's police and courts in doling out justice, professor Yu Guoming of the School of Mass Media at Beijing's Renmin University told The Associated Press.
"The brutality of Naw Kham in the killing really got ordinary Chinese people riled up. It's no wonder that it has attracted such huge attention from the public," Yu said.
The gang was accused of ambushing two flat-bottomed Chinese cargo ships on the upper reaches of the Mekong on October 5, 2011, in Myanmar waters infested with gangs making their living from protection rackets and the production and smuggling of heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Naw Kham and his gang members were found to have planned and colluded with Thai soldiers in the attack on the Hua Ping and Yu Xing 8 in which 13 Chinese sailors died.
Under Naw Kham's instructions, several of his subordinates also kidnapped Chinese sailors and hijacked cargo ships in exchange for ransom in early April 2011.
"Why were Naw Kham and his subordinates so brutal with innocent people? That is a question I still ask today," the wife of Huang Yong, captain of the Hua Ping, told Xinhua news agency.
The mother of a 13-year-old child said: "I want my kid to remember this day forever.
"The execution gave me some comfort but could not make me happy. My husband will never be back," she said.
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