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| Suu Kyi to be charged over U.S. swimmer | |
| 2009-05-14 | |
| YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be charged in connection with an American man who allegedly sneaked into her compound in Yangon where she is under house arrest, a spokesman for her party said on Thursday. Nyan Win of the National League for Democracy (NLD), quoting Suu Kyi's lawyer, said the 63-year-old Nobel Peace laureate would be moved to Yangon's Insein Prison later on Thursday. No date was set for her trial. The charges come only weeks before Suu Kyi's current detention order was due to expire on May 27.
Two female companions who live with Suu Kyi in her lakeside villa, where she has spent most of her latest detention since May 2003, would also be charged, Nyan Win said. "The authorities will move Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her two female companions, Daw Khin Win and her daughter, to Insein Central Prison this morning to stand trial in connection with the American man who sneaked into her residence," Nyan Win told Reuters. Suu Kyi, whose party won 1990 elections only to be denied power by the military which has ruled the former Burma for more than four decades, has been detained for more than 13 of the past 19 years. For most of those years she has been held virtually incommunicado at her lakeside villa, with her telephone line cut, her mail intercepted and visitors restricted. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 I was looking forward to taking the waters this summer in Yangoon ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-05-14 11:35 |
| #1 Yeah, good job asshole, got your idol arrested. Never give them an excuse. In addition, he fucks things up for Americans and other foriegners who might want to go to Burma. I was thinking about it this summer, actually, but I suppose that's off now! Self-centered liberal jerk, what can you say? |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-05-14 00:47 |