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Members of the international community — including Australia and the organisation representing Myanmar's neighbours — call the killings ""appalling"" and ""highly reprehensible"".
Myanmar's ruling military executed four democracy activists accused of aiding "terror acts". The European Union, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Britain and the US condemned the act.
Nilar Thein, wife of Kyaw Min Yu, said she would hold no funeral without a body.
The executions mark the first cases of capital punishment in the country in decades.
The widow of Ko Jimmy and mother of Phyo Zeya Thaw describe their final meetings with the condemned men.