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The eleven were sentenced last autumn for, among other things, murder, kidnapping, fraud and illegal gambling.
In China, they are named as key figures in a mafia-like operation run by a designated family in a village on the Myanmar border. People from other countries have been lured there with false promises of legitimate jobs.
Executes the most each year
The convicts were arrested and extradited to China when resistance militias in Myanmar’s ongoing civil war seized control of the village.
China is the country in the world that executes the most people every year, but the total number is not announced.
