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INSANE: Pleas for help as myanmar awaits high profile executions | Rare Historical Photos

FILE PHOTO: Kyaw Min Yu (2nd R), released from Taunggyi prison, and his wife Nilar Thein (4th R), released from Thar Yar Waddi prison, carry their daughter as they arrive in Yangon domestic airport in Yangon, Myanmar January 13, 2012. Jimmy and Nilar are both activists from the 88 Generation Students Group. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

The wife of pro-democracy figure Kyaw Min Yu, sentenced to be executed on the orders of Myanmar's ruling generals, says that if her husband dies he will take with him the beliefs he has carried throughout a life spent fighting dictatorship.

Kyaw Min Yu, better known as Jimmy, and former lawmaker and hip-hop artist Phyo Zeya Thaw are set to be the first people since 1988 to be executed judicially in Myanmar.

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