aung San Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the military coup of February 1, 2021.
Le Monde with AFP
The Burmese junta tightens her noose around Aung San Suu Kyi. The former leader was sentenced on Wednesday April 27 to an additional five years in prison during a river trial, denounced as a political by the international community.
The Nobel Peace Prize, which had already been inflicted in recent months a sentence of six years in detention, has been sentenced this time under the anti -corruption law. “She remains under house arrest. I do not know if she asked to appeal,” the junta spokesman, Zaw Min Tun. = “inread” Aria-Hidden = “True”>
In good health, according to a source close to the file interviewed earlier this week, Aung San Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the military coup of 1 er February 2021 , which ended a decade of democratic transition in Burma. It is targeted by a multitude of offenses (violation of a law on state secrets dating from the colonial era, electoral fraud, sedition, corruption, etc.) and risks in total decades in prison.
In this case, the military regime accuses him of having perceived $ 600,000 and more than eleven kilos of gold from the former minister in charge of the Rangoun region, Phyo Min Thein. The latter testified in court, claiming to have paid him gold and money in exchange for his support. AUNG SAN SUU KYI, for its part, denied these allegations.
political trial
This is the first corruption case brought against the former leader. In all, a dozen counts for corruption were retained against her. The lady of Rangoun is serving the beginning of her under house arrest, in the place where she has been kept secret for more than a year and where she has to stay for her trial. The latter stands behind closed doors in the capital Naycyidaw; His lawyers prohibited from speaking to press and international organizations.
Many international observers have denounced this reasoned procedure, according to them, only by political considerations: definitively exclude Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of the hero of independence and great winner of the 2015 and 2020 elections, Political arena. “Political motivation is obvious. This is another sordid step in consolidating the coup,” denounces David Mathieson, an analyst specializing in the country.
Several relatives of the Nobel Prize have already been sentenced to heavy penalties: the capital punishment for an ex-parliamentary, seventy-five years in prison for a former minister, twenty years for one of his collaborators. Others have exiled or entered in clandestinity.
Part of the fallen deputies of the National League for Democracy, the Party of Aung San Suu Kyi, have formed a “government of national unity” (NUG) parallel with the aim of undermining the legitimacy of the junta. But, fifteen months after the coup, NUG does not control any territory and has not been recognized by any foreign government.