A group of 55 diplomats and Burmese journalists were allowed to attend Burma’s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi’s, trial on Tuesday.
If convicted Suu Kyi faces up to five years in prison. The trial has been widely condemned as a sham to keep the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader in detention during elections next year.
Suu Kyi testified that 53-year-old John Yettaw, arrived at her Rangoon home early on May 4 after swimming across Inya Lake. Her lawyers say she allowed him to stay for humanitarian reasons after he complained of leg cramps from the swim.
The regime insists Suu Kyi will get a fair trial, but analysts say the courts have a long history of stretching laws to suit the generals.
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on May 28th, 2009 at 5:44 am
this whole thing is a complete farce! the charges are clearly trumped up in order to continue her detainment. The thing that puzzles me is why the dictatorship even bothers trying to make their motives look legitimate. Clearly to any intelligent person they are not legitimate, but regardless, who are they trying to appease? They are a ruthless dictatorship, why not just do what they want without all the theatre?
Its like the Nazi death camps during WWII… all this official pretense about what the actual purpose of the camps were, when really they were just sandboxes for cold blooded killers.
on May 28th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Indeed, why be ruthless and brutal and then try to hide it when everybody knows… The Burmese situation is just so frustrating…