Suu Kyi denies violating house arrest

[mogster]

Source: Independent

Grave but confident, Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi testified before a prison court today, saying she did not violate her house arrest by admitting a man who swam to her lakeside home.

In front of diplomats and journalists who were allowed inside the courtroom in Rangoon's Insein prison for a second time, Ms Suu Kyi said she had given the US army veteran John Yettaw "temporary shelter". She said she first knew of the bizarre visit at dawn on 4 May, when her housekeeper woke her to say a man had arrived at the dilapidated villa where she has been held, incommunicado, since 2003.

When asked by a judge whether she had breached the restriction order keeping her at her residence, the 63-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner replied firmly: "I didn't."

Mark Canning, Britain's ambassador to Burma who was allowed into the court, said: "She made it clear that this whole thing had been thrust upon her. When pressed about why he (Mr Yettaw) did it, she said they should ask him – after all, he was sitting just 10 feet away."

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/suu-kyi-denies-violating-house-arrest-1691001.html

[uppityperson]

1. k&r. How about holding the guy who swam there responsible, not her.

[tkmorris]

2. The military junta there will never let her go

This is just the latest of a series of convenient excuses.

[sybylla]

3. That certainly is the way it seems.

Any excuse to keep her incarcerated.

[mogster]

4. We should hold the regime responsible too

Thanks :-) The guy who swam over seems to be on the edge, so who knows. It is in reality a sham all this, because it is the Myanmar dictatorial regime that should be the real target. They have unlawfully imprisoned the lawfully elected leader of the Burmese nation. She and the National League for Democracy was elected with a clear majority in 1990, and all subsequent rule of law in Burma must be seen in that light. She should have the right to meet who she wants, and talk to who she wants IMO.