Mark Esper was in Taiwan several days ago...
Note: Executions in Myanmar have previously been carried out by hanging.
Reminder: Myanmar's military alleged voter fraud during elections in 2020 – which the NLD (Aung Suu Kyi's party) won by a landslide.
The article and headline is obviously biased but here it is:
Myanmar executes democracy activists in first use of capital punishment for decades
----> "Phyo Zeya Thaw, a former lawmaker from Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) who was arrested in November, was among those executed."
As pointed out before here - see images below: