The former Burmese leader had already been sentenced in December 2021 to four years of detention for breaking the restrictions put in place to combat coronavirus, a sentence reduced to two years by the general power.
Le Monde with AFP
The Burmese junta still tightens its hold on Aung San Suu Kyi, assigned to residence since the military coup of the 1 February 2021. The former leader was sentenced, Monday 10 January, four years in prison in one of the components of his trial after which she risks decades of detention. She had already been sentenced in December 2021 to four years of detention for breaking the restrictions restrictions put in place to combat the SARS-COV-2 epidemic, a sentence reduced to two years by the general power. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, aged 76, purges this first sentence in the place where she has been held incommunicado since his arrest, almost a year ago.
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Aung San Suu Kyi has been found guilty of illegal importation of Walkies, according to a source close to the file. According to the Prosecution, this contraband material would have been discovered during the search carried out in the official residence of Aung San Suu Kyi during his interpellation. Some members of this Commando recognized that there was no mandate to perform this RAID, based on a source close to the file.
A spokesman for the Junta, Major General Zaw Min Tun, confirmed at the France-Presse Agency the Verdict of Monday, stating that Suu Kyi would remain at residence the time of his trial. This new condemnation “still risks strengthening the wrath of the Burmese population,” reacted Manny Maung, researcher for the NGO Human Rights Watch. “Everyone knows that these accusations are false. (…) The military use this tactic of fear to maintain it in arbitrary detention” and definitively remove it from the political arena, she added. Sedition, Corruption, Incitement to Public Disorders, Electoral Fraud … Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with multiple occasions in recent months.
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His trial is held in camera in front of a court established specifically in the capital Naypyidaw where it is judged alongside one of his faithful, the former President of the Republic Win Myint, also arrested on the 1st February. Several relatives of the former leader have already been sentenced to heavy sentences: seventy-five years in prison for a former minister, twenty years for one of his collaborators. Others have exiled or entered clandestine.
The coup resulted in the country in chaos: more than 1,400 civilians were killed by the security forces, according to a local NGO, and citizen militia opposed to the junta took up arms throughout the Burma.
The political influence of Aung San Suu Kyi has declined significantly from Putsch, with a new generation that took up arms against the junta and has more progressive views. But the girl of the hero of independence, icon of democracy during his past years underlying under the previous military dictatorships, always keeps a special place in the heart of the Burmese. The condemnation pronounced against him in December had “deeply irritated and provoked delights of protests on social networks,” says Manny Maung.
The Nobel prize lives in the world, its only links with the outside limiting to brief meetings with his lawyers, who have banned to the press and international organizations. At least 175 people, including many members of his party, the National League for Democracy (LND), would be dead in detention, “most likely as a result of ill-treatment or torture”, denounced, at the beginning December, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet. The generals have justified their passage in force by alleging massive fraud during the 2020 elections, widely won by the LND.