BURMA: DEMOCRACY LEADER TRIAL A RUSE TO KEEP HER OUT OF POLITICS

• by Zin Linn
• Tuesday, June 30, 2009
• Inter Press Service

In this article, Linn writes that Daw Suu Kyi proclaimed her innocence in front of the prison tribunal, arguing that incident occurred because of a security lapse of the authorities and that responsibility for allowing the American to enter lies with them.

The outcome of the trial was prearranged long before the American swimmer came into view. The junta always finds an excuse, reasonable or not, to keep Daw Suu Kyi behind bars. The trial is simply a tool used by General Than Shwe to exclude from the political arena this threat to protracted military rule.

Which leads us to the important question: Will the UN flex its muscles to stop the military's ongoing unilateral proceedings against the Nobel Peace laureate in lawless Burma? And has the world body already planned to address the disagreeable political circumstances there?

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