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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY"
"Due to intrusion of an American citizen into her residence compound in May 2009,
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was taken into custody by the State Peace and Development Council.
She, not her guards, was accused of violating terms of her house arrest, a sentence she began
serving approximately six years ago. The trial of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is politically
motivated and is a way for the SPDC to continue her custody from Insein prison.
Since the beginning of her house arrest in 2003, the SPDC declared Daw Aung San
Suu Kyi's detainment was a temporary 'protective custody.' The sixth year of her detention
was extended last year, although current laws in Burma suggest an extension was illegal. This
year, the SPDC is attempting to extend her detention under the pretext of a show trial in order
to prevent her participation in the current political process and 2010 parliamentary election.
This unfair verdict, as we the NLD-LA expected at the outset, has now demonstrated that the
SPDC bluntly ignored the international community's calls for her release and opening a door
for the national reconciliation that Burma needs badly. The military regime is indeed
attempting to permanently purge Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from Burma's political scene.
The National League for Democracy (Liberated Area) compiled data and information
regarding Daw Aung San Suu Kyi' trial. This report demonstrates this trial is politicallymotivated;
procedures and sentencing do not follow existing Burmese law, highlights the
weaknesses and injustices in the legal process of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's trial, and shows
how flawed the legal system in Burma is under the SPDC military rule. It also points out the
'crisis of Constitution', the term Daw Aung San Suu Kyi used to symbolize the trial.
This comprehensive report includes transcripts of the trial of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
and her two colleagues that reside in her residence. This report includes information from
sources inside Burma and refers to articles printed in the state-run news paper 'New Light of
Myanmar'..."
Source/publisher:
National League for Democracy (Liberated Area) Research and Documentation Unit
Date of Publication:
2009-08-11
Date of entry:
2009-08-15
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English
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