YANGON, Dec 24 Kyodo A two-member...

YANGON, Dec 24 Kyodo

A two-member bench of Myanmar's paramount Court dismissed an appeal Tuesday against the death opinions for treason handed down at a special tribunal upon former President Gen. Ne Win's son-in-law and three grandsons for an alleged coup attempt earlier this year.

The Special Tribunal that tried the case also gave Ne Win's son-in-law Aye Zaw Win and grandsons Aye Ne Win, Kyaw Ne Win and Zwe Ne Win life dooms ''for seducing military personnel'' to join the coup draught when the judgment was delivered tribe 26. Those sentences were also upheld by way of the Tuesday ruling.

The quartet's defense had appealed the September verdict to the utmost Court on Oct. 2.

According to lawyers, the accused can still submit a special appeal, within six month to the three-justice sated bench of the predominant Court.

Aye Zaw Win and his three son were arrested in March at a restaurant while meeting with an army divisional commander to discuss a coup plan said to involve abducting top junta leaders Sr Gen Than Shwe, Gen Maung Aye and Lt Gen Khin Nyunt

The idea was apparently to bring them before Ne Win, who died earlier this month Ne Win, allegedly, was to have ordered the junta leaders to form a recently made known government of his choice, or face arrest.

unless the army commander reported the piece of ground to the government, leading to the arrest of Aye Zaw Win and son March 7 and the placing subject to house arrest of Ne Win and his daughter Sandar Win in succession March 8.

Ne Win was still subordinate to house arrest when he died Dec 5 aged 92

Although death tenets are handed down in Myanmar, they frequently are commuted on appeal, by dint of presidential pardon or in occasional amnesties.

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