Suu Kyi defiant ahead of trial, protests planned

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

YANGON, May 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health and ready to defend herself against new charges that have sparked international outrage against the country's military rulers, her lawyer said.

Activists planned protests at Myanmar embassies around the world on Monday, when the Nobel Peace laureate faces a prison court accused of breaking the conditions of her house arrest set to expire on May 27 after six years of detention.

The American intruder who triggered the case against Suu Kyi and her two female companions by sneaking into her lakeside villa in Yangon is also expected to stand trial on several charges.

Suu Kyi's lawyer, Kyi Win, was allowed to meet her for one hour on Saturday at a guest house inside Insein Central Prison where she was taken last Thursday.



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Sending my best wishes her way.....

[Vehl]

1. I hope she is not punished by the Junta :(

The Military Junta has been waiting for such an excuse to put her on trial...and this guy seems to have done that...
Some of the Burmese Ive talking to even think that this might have been set up by the Junta itself...


The world has to do something about such dictatorial regimes......:(


She is a brave women who rightly earned her Nobel Prize

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. Amy Goodman: Chevron's Pipeline Is the Burmese Regime's Lifeline (REQUIRED READING)

Posted October 3, 2007.

The barbarous military regime depends on revenue from the nation’s gas reserves and partners such as Chevron, a detail ignored by the Bush administration. Tools

The image was stunning: tens of thousands of saffron-robed Buddhist monks marching through the streets of Rangoon , protesting the military dictatorship of Burma. The monks marched in front of the home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was seen weeping and praying quietly as they passed. She hadn't been seen for years. The democratically elected leader of Burma, Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since 2003. She is considered the Nelson Mandela of Burma, the Southeast Asian nation renamed Myanmar by the regime.

more:
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/64310/

[Vehl]

3. why are these companies allowed to do business in such a country??

i dont get it...should we not be banning companies from doing business in countries like Burma? oh wait....its an Oil company and we know who ran the gov for the last 8 years........



its like doing business with the Nazis....


btw, i took part in the 2007 maroon tshirt protests...but sadly human rights abuses are not really big issues..apparently in the UN security council. with China backing the Burmese Junta...who give them basing facilities.