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Second conviction of the Burmese coup military junta against Aung San Suu Kyi


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After her sentence in December to four years in prison for inciting the revolt, which was later reduced by half, the Burmese leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced this Monday to a new prison sentence. According to the news portal ‘Myanmar Now’, Suu Kyi has fallen behind another four years behind bars for the illegal importation of walkie-talkies and for violating coronavirus restrictions.

With these charges, the military that seized power in the coup of February last year they intend to withdraw it from circulation, as she faces several more trials that could deprive her of her freedom for the rest of her days.

Along with these accusations, especially squeaky in the case of walkie-talkies, his adds another process for alleged disclosure of official secrets.

At 76, Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained since the military coup just like the country’s president, Win Myint. Tried behind closed doors and without her lawyers being able to inform either the media or the public, her prosecution is part of the brutal repression with which the Army tries to quell the protests against its coup in Myanmar (official name of the former Burma ). Since they took power by force, the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners estimates that more than 1,450 people have died in the revolt and 11,400 have been arrested. A heavy hand that the UN itself and human rights organizations have criticized, but that the coup military does not seem to care because they have the support of two traditional allies such as neighboring China and Russia.

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Under General Min Aung Hlaing, the Army seized power from Aung San Suu Kyi, the government’s “de facto” leader, after his party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), swept the final elections. of 2020, the second that were held freely after those of 2015. These elections meant the consolidation of democracy after six decades of dictatorship military, but the military alleged electoral fraud that international observers did not detect. For the Army, humiliated by the defeat of its party in the elections, any excuse was valid to regain power in the country and return to overthrow ‘The Lady’, as Aung San Suu Kyi is known.

Born in 1945 into the elite of Rangoon (now Yangon), the ancient “strong woman” of Burma She is the daughter of General Aung San, an independence hero who was assassinated when she was only two years old. Educated in the best schools and in Oxford, she worked at the UN, where she met her husband, the British professor Michael Aris, with whom she had two children. Returning to Burma to visit his sick mother in 1988, in the midst of a revolt against the dictator Ne Win, he took over from the democratic movement and won the 1990 elections, which were annulled by the military junta.

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Aung San Suu Kyi spent a decade and a half under house arrest that separated her from her children and prevented her from saying goodbye to her husband before he died of cancer in 1999. For all these sacrifices she made in her fight for democracy, it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. But he did not hesitate to embrace pragmatism and renounce his principles when his party won the 2015 elections and seized power in Burma. This is what he had made clear to ABC in an interview after his release in 2010, when he advocated having good relations with China and acknowledging that economic interests were above political ones.

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In recent years, and despite continuing to have majority support in his country, his image has suffered abroad for his criticism of Muslims, openly hated in Buddhist Burma. In December 2019, and without having to do so, he went to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to deny the persecution of the Rohingya (pronounce ‘rojinga’), which the UN has described as “ethnic cleansing.” Icon of the fight for freedom and later an accessory to genocide, Aung San Suu Kyi once again becomes a martyr for democracy with this new persecution that could lead her to jail until her death.

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