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Executing This Hip-Hop Star Could Be Rogue State’s Biggest Mistake

MAJOR BEEF

Resistance sources say Zeya Thaw, who was recently executed, was more than an anti-regime icon; he was one of Myanmar’s leading underground military leaders.

Naomi Gingold
Naomi Gingold
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His story has become the stuff of legend.

In mid-November 2021, 400 Myanmar military soldiers went on a mission to arrest one man in Yangon: a hip-hop star named Zeya Thaw.

Over the last 10 years, he’d become a politician and close ally of democracy leader Aung

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