Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in court again Today

Setback for Suu Kyi’s defence
PRO-DEMOCRACY leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s defence suffered a setback yesterday when the court rejected three out of four witnesses whom her lawyers sought to have testify, making it likely that the proceedings will finish this week.
If found guilty, Suu Kyi faces up to five years in jail. ...
Burma’s courts operate under the influence of the military and almost always deal harshly with political dissidents.
Nyan Win, one of Suu Kyi’s lawyers, said only legal expert Kyi Win would be allowed to testify.
Suu Kyi’s defence is trying to prove that her harbouring of an uninvited US man did not violate the conditions of her house arrest.
The court rejected the other witnesses, all members of Suu Kyi’s party, saying their testimony was aimed at “vexation or delay or for defeating the ends of justice”.
Critics say the junta is trying to keep Suu Kyi in detention during the elections that it has planned for next year.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in court again Today
Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is thought to be in the dock again for the eighth day of her trial. She is being tried for breaching the terms of her house arrest, after an American man arrived uninvited at her lakeside home in Rangoon. The man, John Yettaw, is also expected to testify on Wednesday.
The hearing will once again be closed to outside observers, although Ms Suu Kyi's lawyers believe the judges will reach a verdict fairly soon.

The trial has been widely condemned abroad as a ploy to keep her in detention until after the 2010 elections.

Ms Suu Kyi is the head ..of the opposition National League for Democracy Party, which disputes the legitimacy of the polls and the conditions in which the military junta want to hold them.
US condemnation

Ms Suu Kyi, 63, had been due for release on Wednesday after her latest six-year detention, but was re-arrested this month after Mr Yettaw's visit.

She took the stand for the first time on Tuesday to tell the court that she had not been immediately aware of the late-night visit but had been informed later by her assistant.

Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, faces up to five years in jail if convicted, and according to the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head, a guilty verdict is widely expected.

US President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for her "immediate and unconditional" release.

"Aung San Suu Kyi's continued detention, isolation, and show trial based on spurious charges cast serious doubt on the Burmese regime's willingness to be a responsible member of the international community," he said in a statement.

President Obama's comments are the latest of many from around the world.

On taking office, the US president ordered a review of US policy towards the military government, which has relied heavily on sanctions and isolating the ruling generals - a policy that is now widely judged to have been ineffective.

But the military's determination to keep Aung San Suu Kyi locked up will make it difficult for the US administration to sell a more nuanced approach towards Burma to an outraged American public, our correspondent says.
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Security Council wants Myanmar's Suu Kyi released
2009-05-26 00:55:00

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Friday called for the release of all political prisoners in Myanmar including Aung San Suu Kyi and expressed concern at the "political impact" of the pro-democracy leader's trial.
A press statement approved by all 15 council members reiterated the need for Myanmar's military leaders "to create the necessary conditions for a genuine dialogue" with Suu Kyi and other opposition and minority groups "to achieve an inclusive national reconciliation."
The United States had initially urged the council to adopt a stronger presidential statement, which becomes part of the council's official record. But diplomats said it was downgraded to a press statement to get approval from China and Russia, which have close ties to Myanmar's military government.
The statement was issued as a court in Myanmar accepted the charge that Suu Kyi violated the terms of her house arrest after an American man swam to and entered her lakeside home earlier this month. She has been in detention without trial for more than 13 of the past 19 years, and the court's decision means that her trial will likely proceed to a verdict that could see her jailed for up to five years.
Earlier Friday, the ruling junta alleged that anti-government forces engineered the visit to Suu Kyi's house to embarrass the regime and aggravate its relations with the West. Suu Kyi, two women who live with her and the American have all pleaded innocent.
Myanmar has been ruled by the military since 1962. The current junta seized power in 1988 and refused to honor the results of a 1990 general election won by Suu Kyi's party. If she is imprisoned as a result of the current trial, she will be out of the government's way during upcoming elections in 2010.
In the press statement, "the members of the Security Council express their concern about the political impact of recent developments relating to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi."
Council members reiterated the importance of their first-ever statement on Myanmar in October 2007 and a second presidential statement in May 2008 "and, in this regard, reiterate the importance of the release of all political prisoners." Their statement did not single out Suu Kyi.
But Britain's U.N. Ambassador John Sawers said "the reiteration of our call for the release of all political prisoners is very pointed when the most prominent of those political prisoners is standing in the dock on, frankly, charges which stand no credibility."
U.S. deputy ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo said the council has now added its voice to those of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and other leaders from the region and elsewhere.
So far, however, Myanmar's government has ignored all appeals for Suu Kyi's release.
"We will continue speaking out to get that impact that we need," DiCarlo said. "We know Rome wasn't built in a day and one statement isn't necessarily going to do the trick but we will continue to do so."
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BURMA: BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY
Jail term will not silence Suu Kyi


REALPOLITIK: Trevor Royle
WHEN I heard that the Burmese authorities had arrested Aung San Suu Kyi for the umpteenth time, I almost felt sorry for those hapless generals. It was only a momentary sensation, mind you, but it helped to flag up the dilemma both sides are facing in this absurd confrontation. Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the few truly good people living today, a virtuous woman who practises Mahatma Gandhi's policy of passive resistance and in so doing represents the democratic aspirations of her fellow Burmese citizens.
Her persecutors are a vicious bunch of unelected soldiers who have turned this beautiful country into a living hell. Burma - or Myanmar - is isolated from the rest of the world and its people have been repressed for far too many years. Apart from the brave Buddhist priests who risked their lives to highlight the country's plight a year or so ago, this slight, saintly 63-year-old woman remains their best hope of salvation. The generals may have silenced her for the time being, but, make no mistake, in her case, stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
The reason for Aung San Suu Kyi's confinement in the grisly Insein jail in Rangoon is ridiculous. A deluded US war veteran called John Yettaw swam across the lake beside her compound and demanded from his unwilling host some kind of absolution for his role in Vietnam and the more recent death of his son. He probably meant well, more likely than not he is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome, but whatever the reason for his crazy actions, he broke the terms of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest and so she has to pay the penalty.
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Yettaw is neither better nor worse than any number of groupies who want to get close to the object of their obsession, but his unexpected watery appearance gave the generals the pretext that they needed to keep her in check. Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest was due to be reviewed this week, but now she is facing criminal charges - a good outcome for her jailers if they want to ensure her silence ahead of next year's elections.
They can't afford to allow her to return to public life because they know that while she is a beacon of hope they symbolise nothing but despair.
As long as Aung San Suu Kyi is out of sight, the generals hope that she will be out of mind, but on this point their reasoning is askew. Keeping her in Insein is not an option. All along the generals have conceded that placing Aung San Suu Kyi in irons would create such opprobrium that they would have to bow to international pressure. That's why house arrest suits them. It removes her from the public gaze, but it doesn't seem excessively brutal. She can receive limited numbers of carefully vetted visitors, she has restricted access to the outside world but to all intents and purposes she is a bird in a less than gilded cage.
That's the theory and down the years despots have attempted to silence their opponents by using dungeons of one kind or another. Sometimes they succeed - Imre Nagy's arrest and eventual execution by the Soviets in Budapest in 1958 springs to mind - but in Aung San Suu Kyi's case, the Burmese generals are on a hiding to nothing. Ever since she returned to Burma 21 years ago to renew the flame of independence originally lit by her father Aung San, she has opposed the rule of the generals. By way of response, they simply didn't know what to do with her and the years of house arrest and repression have done nothing to silence her.
More than that, she has come to represent everything that her jailers are not. Her moral courage is beyond praise. Her quiet authority grows with every attempt made by her oppressors to try to silence her. Her resilience is a shining example to others and a reminder that although the generals have the guns and the big battalions, she possesses an integrity which can only be earned the hard way. Ranged against her, the generals are little more than moral pygmies, diminished by their many oppressions and shamed by their refusal to take heed of a good woman.
But, as ever, Aung San Suu Kyi has provided the last word and it's one that should be heeded, not just in her own country but elsewhere. It's fear that corrupts, not power, she wrote in her memoirs, adding the thought that "fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it". Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
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